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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From بوق (bok, “excrement”) + ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb
بوقلامق • (boklamak)
- (transitive) to befoul, soil, contaminate, defile, to make (someone or something) physicially dirty, filthy, or foul
- Synonyms: پیسلمك (pislemek), كیرلمك (kirlemek), مردارلامق (murdarlamak)
- (transitive) to mismanage, to manage an area of responsibility in a way which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest
Descendants
Further reading
- 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, 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