زفتلمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From زفت (zift, “pitch, tar”) +‎ ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

زفتلمك • (ziftlemek)

1. (transitive) to pitch, tar, to cover, smear, coat, or daub over with pitch or tar

   Synonym: قطرانلامق (katranlamak)

Descendants

• Turkish: ziftlemek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ziftlemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5482
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زفتلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 645
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زفتلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1010