یاوزلانمق
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From یاوز (yavuz, “stern, tough; good, excellent”) + ـلانمق (-lanmak, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in back vowels).
Verb
یاوزلانمق • (yavuzlanmak)
- (intransitive) to become good, good-natured, or excellent
- (intransitive) to become stern, tough, rigorous, or severe
Descendants
- Turkish: yavuzlanmak
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yavuzlanmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5254
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاوزلانمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2195