بویالامق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بویا (boya, “paint, dye”) +‎ ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

بویالامق • (boyalamak)

1. (transitive) to paint, color, to apply paint or color to a material or surface

   Synonym: بویامق (boyamak)

Descendants

• Turkish: boyalamak
• → Armenian: պօյալամիշ (pōyalamiš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “boyalamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 661
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بویالامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎ (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 296
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بویالامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 412