بالابانلانمق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بلابانلانمق (balabanlanmak)

Etymology

From بالابان (balaban, “large, big, huge”) +‎ ـلانمق (-lanmak, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in back vowels).

Verb

بالابانلانمق • (balabanlanmak)

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

   Synonyms: ایریلشمك (irileşmek), بیومك (büyümek)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالابانلانمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 246
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بلابانلانمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 379