آشاغیلامق
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- آشاغیلمق (aşağılamak)
Etymology
[edit]From آشاغی (aşağı, “lower, inferior”) + ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb
[edit]آشاغیلامق • (aşağılamak)
- (transitive) to belittle, degrade, deprecate, denigrate, to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is
- Synonyms: آز كوسترمك (az göstermek), كوچولتمك (küçültmek)
- (intransitive) to descend, come down, to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position, to move downwards
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: aşağılamak
Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آشاغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 60
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aşağılamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 328
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آشاغیلامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 19
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آشاغیلمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 117