كیرلمك
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From كیر (kir, “dirt, filth”) + ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb[edit]
كیرلمك • (kirlemek)
- (transitive) to befoul, soil, to make dirty, filthy, or foul
- (transitive) to befoul, to stain or mar with infamy or disgrace
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: kirlemek
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kirlemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2684
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كیرلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1066
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كیرلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1611