لطیفه ایتمك
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From لطیفه (latife, “joke, jest”) + ایتمك (etmek, “to do; to make”).
Verb
- (intransitive) to joke, jest, prank, to do or say something for amusement rather than seriously
- Synonym: شقا ایتمك (şaka etmek)
Descendants
- Turkish: latife etmek
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “latife etmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2943
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Jocari”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[1], Vienna, column 867
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لطیفه ایتمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 4176
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لطیفه ایتمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1633