یاقه‌لامق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یاقه (yaka, “collar”) +‎ ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

یاقه‌لامق • (yakalamak)

1. (transitive) to collar, to place a collar on, to fit a garment with one
2. (transitive) to collar, to grab, catch, or seize by the collar or neck

Descendants

• Turkish: yakalamak
• → Armenian: յախալամիշ (yaxalamiš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yakalamak2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5163
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاقه‌لامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1342
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاقه‌لامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2190