كوستكلمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كوستك (köstek, “tether, hobble, fetter”) +‎ ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

كوستكلمك • (kösteklemek)

(transitive) to hobble, tether, fetter, to restrict a horse with a rope or chain

Descendants

Turkish: kösteklemek

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kösteklemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2799
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوستكلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1054
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوستكلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1595

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