قارشلامق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قارش (karış, “span, handspan”) +‎ ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

قارشلامق • (karışlamak)

1. (transitive) to span, to measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended

Descendants

• Turkish: karışlamak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karışlamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2438
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قارشلامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1410