نشانلامق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From نشان (nişan, “sign, mark, target”) +‎ ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

نشانلامق • (nişanlamak)

1. (transitive) to mark, to put a mark (on something)
2. (transitive) to take aim at, sight, point
3. (transitive) to betroth; to give a token of betrothal

Descendants

• Turkish: nişanlamak
• → Armenian: նիշանլամիշ (nišanlamiš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nişanlamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3553
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نشانلامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1275
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Signare”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1553
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نشانلامق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5182
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نشانلامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2085