نشانلانمق
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From نشان (nişan, “sign, mark, target”) + ـلانمق (-lanmak, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in back vowels).
Verb edit
نشانلانمق • (nişanlanmak)
- (intransitive) to become a sign, mark, target, etc.
- (intransitive) to become possessed with some mark or token
- (intransitive) to betroth, to promise to take as a future spouse
Descendants edit
- Turkish: nişanlanmak
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nişanlanmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3553
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نشانلانمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1275
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نشانلانمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2083