یشیللنمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یشیل (yeşil, “green, verdant”) +‎ ـلنمك (-lenmek, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in front vowels).

Verb

یشیللنمك • (yeşillenmek)

1. (intransitive) to become green, verdant, especially with vegetation, leaves or grass
2. (intransitive, figuratively) to woo, court, to look, act or speak amorously to a woman

Descendants

• Turkish: yeşillenmek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yeşillenmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5305
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یشیللنمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1352
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Virere”, 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 1767
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یشیللنمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5578
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یشیللنمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2203