قانجه‌لامق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قانجه (kanca, “large hook”) +‎ ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

قانجه‌لامق • (kancalamak)

1. (transitive) to hook, to grapple, catch or seize with a hook
2. (transitive, figuratively) to grapple or seize with the bent fingers

Descendants

• Turkish: kancalamak
• → Armenian: խանճալամիշ (xančalamiš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kancalamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2380
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قانجه‌لامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 937
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قانجه‌لامق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 3599–3600
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قانجه‌لامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1427