كوروكلمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كوروك (körük, “bellows”) +‎ ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

كوروكلمك • (körüklemek)

(transitive) to bellows, to direct air at something using a bellows
(transitive, figuratively) to instigate, incite, especially a fight or riot
Synonym: دورتمك (dürtmek)

Descendants

Turkish: körüklemek

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “körüklemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2795
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوروكلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1051
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوروكلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1591

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