چنبرلمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Verb

چنبرلمك • (çemberlemek)

(transitive) to hoop, to bind or fasten using a hoop
(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, Constantinople: Mihran, page 475
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چنبرلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 731

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