قارشلامق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قارش (karış, “span, handspan”) +‎ ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

قارشلامق • (karışlamak)

(transitive) to span, to measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended

Descendants

Turkish: karışlamak

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karışlamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2438
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قارشلامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1410

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