اسكیلنمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اسكی (eski, “old”) +‎ ـلنمك (-lenmek, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in back vowels).

Verb

اسكیلنمك • (eskilenmek)

  1. (intransitive) to become or grow old, age
    Synonym: قوجه‌لامق (kocalamak)
  2. (intransitive) to become inveterate or chronic

Further reading
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اسكیلنمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 218
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسكیلنمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 112
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