تكهلمك
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From تكه (teke, “billy-goat”) + ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb
[edit]تكهلمك • (tekelemek)
- (intransitive, for a male kid) to become full grown
- (intransitive, for a billy-goat) to be in heat
- (intransitive, figuratively) to become furious, or choleric
Further reading
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تكهلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 396
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تكهلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 584