قولایلامق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قولایلمق (kolaylamak)

Etymology

From قولای (kolay, “easy, simple”) +‎ ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

قولایلامق • (kolaylamak)

1. (transitive) to facilitate, to ease, to make something easy or easier

   Synonym: قولای ایتمك (kolay etmek)

2. (intransitive) to break the back of, to have nearly finished an activity

Descendants

• Turkish: kolaylamak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kolaylamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2716
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قولایلمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 376b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قولایلامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 988
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Facilitare”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 542
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قولایلمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3804
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قولایلامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1494