كوبكلنمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From گوبك (göbek, “navel; core”) +‎ ـلنمك (-lenmek, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in front vowels).

Verb

گوبكلنمك • (göbeklenmek)

1. (intransitive, of plants) to form a core, the central part of a fruit

Descendants

• Turkish: göbeklenmek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “göbeklenmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1734
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوبكلنمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1045