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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From بالق (balık, “fish”) + ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb
بالقلامق • (balıklamak) (intransitive)
- to writhe, squirm, wriggle, to twist one's body to and fro
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “balıklamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 453
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالقلامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 249
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالقلمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 335