كوروكلمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كوروك (körük, “bellows”) +‎ ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

كوروكلمك • (körüklemek)

1. (transitive) to bellows, to direct air at something using a bellows
2. (transitive, figuratively) to instigate, incite, especially a fight or riot

   Synonym: دورتمك (dürtmek)

Descendants

• Turkish: körüklemek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “körüklemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2795
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوروكلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1051
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوروكلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1591