یلمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yel- (“to run, hurry”) and possibly cognate with یل (yel, “wind”), یلكن (yelken, “sail”) and یلك (yelek, “waistcoat”).

Verb

یلمك • (yelmek)

1. to run swiftly, hurry, rush

   Synonyms: سگرتمك (seğirtmek), قوشمق (koşmak)

2. to run back and forth, to run around

   Synonym: قوشمق (koşmak)

Derived terms

• یلمه (yelme, “act of running”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yelmek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yelmek2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5282
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1358
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Currere”, 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 314
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یلمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5604
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yel-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2209a