bocalamak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پوجه‌لمق (pocalamak), verbal form of پوجه (poca), from Italian poggia, imperative of poggiare. In Turkish the nautical sense is the original.

Verb

bocalamak (third-person singular simple present bocalar)

  1. (nautical) veer
  2. to falter, stagger, act confused
    • 1929 December 6, headline in Yarın:
      Borsada bir hâdise: İngiliz bocalıyor!
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References
  • Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 507
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “boca”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پوجه‌لمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 456
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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