ساقزلانمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From ساقز (sakız, “resin, gum; mastic”) +‎ ـلانمق (-lanmak, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in back vowels).

Verb

ساقزلانمق • (sakızlanmak)

1. (intransitive) to become sticky or tenacious, like resin, gum and mastic

Descendants

• → Armenian: սախըզլանմիշ (saxəzlanmiš)

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ساقزلانمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1029