پرمقلمق
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- پارمقلامق (parmaklamak)
Etymology
From پرمق (parmak, “finger, toe”) + ـلمق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb
پرمقلمق • (parmaklamak)
- (transitive) to poke, finger, to prod, jab, or touch something with a finger
- (transitive) to meddle with, interfere, to concern oneself with unduly
- Synonym: یاپشمق (yapışmak)
Descendants
- Turkish: parmaklamak
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “parmaklamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3782
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پارمقلامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 312
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پرمقلمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 444