یالدزلانمق
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From یالدز (yaldız, “gilding”) + ـلانمق (-lanmak, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in back vowels).
Verb
یالدزلانمق • (yaldızlanmak)
- (intransitive) to be gilded or washed, to be covered, adorned, or decorated with a thin layer of gold
Descendants
- Turkish: yaldızlanmak
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yaldızlanmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5176
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یالدزلانمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2191