avlamak

From Ottoman Turkish آولامق (avlamak, “to hunt, to deceive, to dupe”),^[1] from آو (av, “the chase, hunting of any kind, game, prey”), from Proto-Turkic *āb (“the act of hunting or that which is hunted”),^[2] equivalent to av (“hunt, prey”) +‎ -la- (verb forming suffix) +‎ -mak. Cognates with Azerbaijani ovlamaq.

• IPA^(key): /aβ.ɫaˈmak/
• Hyphenation: av‧la‧mak

avlamak (third-person singular simple present avlar)

1. (transitive) To hunt, to prey on, to capture a prey dead or alive.

   Avcılar, yasak olmasına rağmen nesli tehlikede olan hayvanı avladılar. ― Hunters hunted the endangered animal even though it was illegal.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To deceive, to dupe, to bamboozle.

• avcı (“hunter”)
• av (“hunt, prey”)

• “avlamak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “avlamak”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• avlamak in Reverso (Turkish-English)