مهرهلمك
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From مهره (mühre, “grinding shell, grinding stone”) + ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb
[edit]مهرهلمك • (mührelemek)
- (transitive) to polish, burnish, to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: mührelemek
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mührelemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3357
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مهرهلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1252
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lævigare”, 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[2], Vienna, column 907
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مهرهلمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 5054
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مهرهلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2046