سڭیرلمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From سڭیر (siñir, “nerve; tendon”) +‎ ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

سڭیرلمك • (siñirlemek)

1. (transitive) to hamstring, hough, to lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee

Descendants

• Turkish: sinirlemek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sinirlemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4255
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سڭیرلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1069