بوقلامق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بوقلمق (boklamak)

Etymology

From بوق (bok, “excrement”) +‎ ـلا (-la, suffix forming verbs).

Verb

بوقلامق • (boklamak)

1. (transitive) to befoul, soil, contaminate, especially with feces

   Synonyms: پیسلمك (pislemek), كیرلمك (kirlemek), مردارلامق (murdarlamak)

2. (transitive, figurative) to mismanage

Descendants

• Turkish: boklamak

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “boklamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 647
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “بوقلمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 133b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بوقلامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎ (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 290
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Sordidare”, 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, Vienna, column 1575
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بوقلمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 934
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بوقلامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 405