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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From كوستك (köstek, “tether, hobble, fetter”) + ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb
كوستكلمك • (kösteklemek)
- (transitive) to hobble, tether, fetter, to restrict a horse with a rope or chain
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kösteklemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2799
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوستكلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1054
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوستكلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1595