پرگارلامق
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From پرگار (perger, “pair of compasses”) + ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb edit
پرگارلامق • (pergerlemek)
- (transitive) to compass, to encircle, surround, or measure with a pair of compasses
- (transitive, figuratively) to contrive, devise, to invent by an exercise of ingenuity
- Synonym: تصارلامق (tasarlamak)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: pergellemek
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pergellemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3827
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پرگارلامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 320
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پرگارلامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 443