چنبرلمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From چنبر (çember, “hoop, circle”) +‎ ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

چنبرلمك • (çemberlemek)

1. (transitive) to hoop, to bind or fasten using a hoop
2. (transitive) to hoop, encircle, surround, form a circle

Descendants

• Turkish: çemberlemek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çemberlemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 926
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چنبرلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 475
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چنبرلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 731