بوجكلنمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بوجك (böcek, “insect”) +‎ ـلنمك (-lenmek, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in front vowels).

Verb

بوجكلنمك • (böceklenmek)

1. (intransitive) to become infested by insect or parasites

Descendants

• Turkish: böceklenmek
• → Armenian: պէօճէքլէնմիշ (pēōčēkʻlēnmiš) — Constantinople

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “böceklenmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 670
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوجكلنمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 281