قولتقلامق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قولتق (koltuk, “armpit; armchair”) +‎ ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

قولتقلامق • (koltuklamak)

1. to support and prop up
2. to flatter, praise excessively

Descendants

• Turkish: koltuklamak
• → Armenian: խոլթուխլամիշ (xoltʻuxlamiš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “koltuklamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2723
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قولتقلامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 988
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قولتقلامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1497