النماق

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *ilen-, seemingly the passive form of *ile- (“to ruin, spoil”) despite its transitivity. Cognate with Turkish ilenmek.

Verb

اِلَنْماقْ (ilenmēk) (third-person singular aorist اِلانُرْ (ilēnür))

1. (transitive) to reprove

   اُلْ اَنْكارْ اِلَنْدٖى ― Ol aŋār ilendī. ― He reproved him.

Derived terms

• اِلَنْجْ (ilenč, “reproach”)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ilen-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 148

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 204