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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From یشیل (yeşil, “green, verdant”) + ـلنمك (-lenmek, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in front vowels).
Verb
یشیللنمك • (yeşillenmek)
- (intransitive) to become green, verdant, especially with vegetation, leaves or grass
- (intransitive, figuratively) to woo, court, to look, act or speak amorously to a woman
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yeşillenmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5305
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یشیللنمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1352
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Virere”, 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 1767
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یشیللنمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5578
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یشیللنمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2203