قانجهلامق
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From قانجه (kanca, “large hook”) + ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb
[edit]قانجهلامق • (kancalamak)
- (transitive) to hook, to grapple, catch or seize with a hook
- (transitive, figuratively) to grapple or seize with the bent fingers
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: kancalamak
- → Armenian: խանճալամիշ (xančalamiš)
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kancalamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2380
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قانجهلامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 937
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قانجهلامق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, columns 3599–3600
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قانجهلامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1427