آیازلامق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• آیازلمق (ayazlamak)

Etymology

From آیاز (ayaz, “frost”) +‎ ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

آیازلامق • (ayazlamak)

1. (intransitive) to spend the night out in the cold, exposed to clear frosts or dews
2. (intransitive, figuratively) to wait in vain, to wait for someone or something uselessly

Descendants

• Turkish: ayazlamak

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آیاز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 212
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ayazlamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 379
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آیازلامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 42
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آیازلمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 283