ایلیكلمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From ایلیك (ilik, “loop, eye”) +‎ ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

ایلیكلمك • (iliklemek) (transitive)

1. to button up, to fasten with a button or buttons

   Synonym: دوگمه‌لمك (düğmelemek)

2. to loop, to fasten or encircle something with a loop

Descendants

• Turkish: iliklemek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “iliklemek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2143
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ایلكلمك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 95b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایلیكلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 225
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “الكلمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 393
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایلیكلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 305