كیرلمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كیر (kir, “dirt, filth”) +‎ ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

كیرلمك • (kirlemek)

(transitive) to befoul, soil, to make dirty, filthy, or foul
Synonyms: پیسلمك (pislemek), مردارلامق (murdarlamak)
(transitive) to befoul, to stain or mar with infamy or disgrace

Descendants

Turkish: kirlemek

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kirlemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2684
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كیرلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1066
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كیرلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1611

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