دوكمه‌لمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From دوگمه (düğme, “button”) +‎ ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

دوگمه‌لمك • (düğmelemek) (transitive)

1. to button up, to fasten with a button or buttons

   Synonym: ایلیكلمك (iliklemek)

Descendants

• Turkish: düğmelemek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “düğmelemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1320
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دوكمه‌لمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 590
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دوكمه‌لمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 2182
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دوكمه‌لمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 925