خفیفلنمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From خفیف (hafif, “light, not heavy”) +‎ ـلنمك (-lenmek, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in front vowels).

Verb

خفیفلنمك • (hafiflenmek)

(intransitive) to become light or lighter in weight
(intransitive) to lighten up, to become less serious

Further reading

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خفیفلنمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 547

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