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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From كیر (kir, “dirt, filth”) + ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb
كیرلمك • (kirlemek)
- (transitive) to befoul, soil, to make dirty, filthy, or foul
- Synonyms: پیسلمك (pislemek), مردارلامق (murdarlamak)
- (transitive) to befoul, to stain or mar with infamy or disgrace
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kirlemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2684
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كیرلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1066
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كیرلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1611