اوتولمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اوتو (ütü, “clothes iron, flatiron”) +‎ ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

اوتولمك • (ütülemek)

1. (transitive) to iron, pass an iron over clothing in order to remove creases
2. (transitive) to brown a dish using a cook's salamander
3. (transitive) to burn the feathers or the hairs of an animal

Descendants

• Turkish: ütülemek
• → Armenian: իւթիւլէմիշ (iwtʻiwlēmiš)
• → Ladino: utledear

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ütülemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5066
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوتولمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 175
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوتولمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 488
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوتولمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 238