قورتلانمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قورت (kurt, “wolf; worm, maggot”) +‎ ـلانمق (-lanmak, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in back vowels).

Verb

قورتلانمق • (kurtlanmak)

1. (intransitive) to become infested with worms, maggots, grubs, or similar pests

Descendants

• Turkish: kurtlanmak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kurtlanmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2852
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورتلانمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1483