پرگارلامق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From پرگار (perger, “pair of compasses”) +‎ ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

پرگارلامق • (pergerlemek)

(transitive) to compass, to encircle, surround, or measure with a pair of compasses
(transitive, figuratively) to contrive, devise, to invent by an exercise of ingenuity
Synonym: تصارلامق (tasarlamak)

Descendants

Turkish: pergellemek

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pergellemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3827
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پرگارلامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 320
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پرگارلامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 443

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