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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From كوروك (körük, “bellows”) + ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb
كوروكلمك • (körüklemek)
- (transitive) to bellows, to direct air at something using a bellows
- (transitive, figuratively) to instigate, incite, especially a fight or riot
- Synonym: دورتمك (dürtmek)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “körüklemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2795
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوروكلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1051
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوروكلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1591