قره‌لامق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

قره (kara, “black”) +‎ ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives)

Verb

قره‌لامق • (karalamak)

1. to blacken
2. to scribble, doodle, or write on paper

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قره‌لامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1450