بوجكلنمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بوجك (böcek, “insect”) +‎ ـلنمك (-lenmek, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in front vowels).

Verb

بوجكلنمك • (böceklenmek)

(intransitive) to become infested by insect or parasites

Descendants

Turkish: böceklenmek
→ Armenian: պէօճէքլէնմիշ (pēōčēkʻlēnmiš) — Constantinople

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “böceklenmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 670
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوجكلنمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 281

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