قولایلانمق
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From قولای (kolay, “easy, simple”) + ـلانمق (-lanmak, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in back vowels).
Verb
قولایلانمق • (kolaylanmak)
- (intransitive) to simplify, to become easier or simpler, to have its difficulties removed
- (intransitive) to become nearly finished or completed, to be nearly solved or worked out
Descendants
- Turkish: kolaylanmak
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قولای”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 574
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kolaylanmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2716
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قولایلانمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 988
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قولایلانمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1494