دوكمه‌لنمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From دوگمه (düğme, “button”) +‎ ـلنمك (-lenmek, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in front vowels).

Verb

دوگمه‌لنمك • (düğmelenmek) (intransitive)

1. to button up, to fasten all the buttons on a coat
2. (of a coat or other clothes) to become furnished with buttons

Descendants

• Turkish: düğmelenmek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “düğmelenmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1320
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دوكمه‌لنمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 925