چاپوللامق
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From چاپول (çapul, “pillage, plunder, raid, sack”) + ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb
چاپوللامق • (çapullamak)
- (transitive) to sack, pillage, loot, ransack, plunder, to take or destroy all the goods of, especially in time of war
- Synonyms: غنیمت آلمق (ganimet almak), یغما ایتمك (yağma etmek)
Descendants
- Turkish: çapullamak
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چاپول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 553
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çapullamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 887
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاپوللامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 456
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاپوللامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 699