هركلمك
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From هرك (herek, “stake, pole; wooden platform”) + ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb
هركلمك • (hereklemek)
- (transitive) to stake, pole, to prop or support a plant, especially a grapevine
- (transitive) to spread raisins or tobacco-leaves on a platform in order to dry
Descendants
- Turkish: hereklemek
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “هرك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 853
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “hereklemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1934
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “هركلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2162