خروسلانمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From خروس (horos, “rooster, cock”) +‎ ـلنمق (-lanmak, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in back vowels).

Verb

خروسلانمق • (horoslanmak)

1. (intransitive) to show off, swagger, strut, to walk haughtily or proudly with one's head held high

Descendants

• Turkish: horozlanmak
• → Armenian: խօրօզլանմիշ (xōrōzlanmiš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “horozlanmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1986
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خروسلانمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 538
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خروسلانمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 843