ماله‌لامق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From ماله (mala, “mason's trowel”) +‎ ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

ماله‌لامق • (malalamak)

(transitive) to trowel, to work, smooth or polish with a mason's trowel

Descendants

Turkish: malalamak

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “malalamak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3035
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ماله‌لامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1662

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