پرمقلمق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• پارمقلامق (parmaklamak)

Etymology

From پرمق (parmak, “finger, toe”) +‎ ـلمق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

پرمقلمق • (parmaklamak)

1. (transitive) to poke, finger, to prod, jab, or touch something with a finger
2. (transitive) to meddle with, interfere, to concern oneself with unduly

   Synonym: یاپشمق (yapışmak)

Descendants

• Turkish: parmaklamak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “parmaklamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3782
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پارمقلامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 312
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پرمقلمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 444