مهره‌لمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From مهره (mühre, “grinding shell, grinding stone”) +‎ ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

مهره‌لمك • (mührelemek)

  1. (transitive) to polish, burnish, to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding

Descendants
  • Turkish: mührelemek

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mührelemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3357
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مهره‌لمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1252
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lævigare”, 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, Vienna, column 907
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مهره‌لمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5054
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مهره‌لمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2046
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