چنگللنمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From چنگل (çengel, “hook”) +‎ ـلنمك (-lenmek, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in front vowels).

Verb

چنگللنمك • (çengellenmek)

to be hooked, to be attached or hung with a hook
to be executed with an iron hook passed through the body

Descendants

Turkish: çengellenmek

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çengellenmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 931
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چنگللنمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 476

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