چنگللمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From چنگل (çengel, “hook”) +‎ ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

چنگللمك • (çengellemek)

to hook, to attach or hang something with a hook
to execute someone with an iron hook passed through the body

Descendants

Turkish: çengellemek

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çengellemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 931
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چنگللمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 476
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چنگللمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 733

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