صاغرلانمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From صاغر (sağır, “deaf”) +‎ ـلانمق (-lanmak, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in back vowels).

Verb

صاغرلانمق • (sağırlanmak)

(intransitive) to grow deaf, to become unable or only partially able to hear
(intransitive, of sounds) to grow dull, indistinct, muffled, stifled, or nasal

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صاغرلانمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2216

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