نشانلانمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From نشان (nişan, “sign, mark, target”) +‎ ـلانمق (-lanmak, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in back vowels).

Verb

نشانلانمق • (nişanlanmak)

(intransitive) to become a sign, mark, target, etc.
(intransitive) to become possessed with some mark or token
(intransitive) to betroth, to promise to take as a future spouse

Descendants

Turkish: nişanlanmak

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nişanlanmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3553
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نشانلانمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1275
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نشانلانمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2083

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