شیشلمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From شیش (şiş, “spit, skewer”) +‎ ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

شیشلمك • (şişlemek)

1. (transitive) to spit, skewer, to impale or pierce with a sharp object

Descendants

• Turkish: şişlemek
• → Armenian: շիշլէմիշ (šišlēmiš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şişlemek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4495
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شیشلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 741
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شیشلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1147