منكنهلمك
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- منكنهلهمك (mengenelemek)
Etymology
[edit]From منكنه (mengene, “pressing instrument, mangle”) + ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb
[edit]منكنهلمك • (mengenelemek)
- (transitive) to press, to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth
Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “منكنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 792
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “منكنهلمك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 465b
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “منكنهلمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 4986