اسكیلنمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اسكی (eski, “old”) +‎ ـلنمك (-lenmek, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in back vowels).

Verb

اسكیلنمك • (eskilenmek)

1. (intransitive) to become or grow old, age

   Synonym: قوجه‌لامق (kocalamak)

2. (intransitive) to become inveterate or chronic

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اسكیلنمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 218
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسكیلنمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 112