ایریلشمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From ایری (iri, “large, great”) +‎ ـلشمك (-leşmek, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in front vowels).

Verb

ایریلشمك • (irileşmek)

1. (intransitive) to enlarge, grow, expand, to increase in size, to become larger

   Synonym: بیومك (büyümek)

Descendants

• Turkish: irileşmek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “irileşmek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2204
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایریلشمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 216
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایریلشمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 295