بالقلامق
Ottoman Turkish edit
Alternative forms edit
- بالقلمق (balıklamak)
Etymology edit
From بالق (balık, “fish”) + ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb edit
بالقلامق • (balıklamak) (intransitive)
- to writhe, squirm, wriggle, to twist one's body to and fro
Descendants edit
- Turkish: balıklamak
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “balıklamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 453
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالقلامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 249
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالقلمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 335