نعللامق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From نعل (naʼl, “horseshoe”) +‎ ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

نعللامق • (naʼllamak)

1. (transitive) to shoe, to put horseshoes on a horse

Derived terms

• نعللامه (naʼllama, “act of shoeing a horse”)
• پیره‌یی نعللامق (pireyi naʼllamak, “to attempt the impossible”, literally “to shoe a flea”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: nallamak
• → Armenian: նալլամիշ (nallamiš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nallamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3485
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نعللامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1280
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نعللامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2090