بالطهلامق
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom بالطه (balta, “axe, hatchet”) + ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb
editبالطهلامق • (baltalamak)
- (transitive) to axe, to fell or chop with an axe or hatchet
- (figuratively) to wreck, scupper, ruin, cause damage to something
- (figuratively) to sabotage, undermine, weaken or work against
Descendants
edit- Turkish: baltalamak
- → Armenian: պալթալամիշ (paltʻalamiš)
Further reading
edit- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “baltalamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 456
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالطهلامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 247