سڭیرلمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From سڭیر (siñir, “nerve; tendon”) +‎ ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

سڭیرلمك • (siñirlemek)

(transitive) to hamstring, hough, to lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee

Descendants

Turkish: sinirlemek

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sinirlemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4255
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سڭیرلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1069

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