كیرلمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كیر (kir, “dirt, filth”) ‎ ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

كیرلمك • (kirlemek)

1. (transitive) to befoul, soil, to make dirty, filthy, or foul

   Synonyms: پیسلمك (pislemek), مردارلامق (murdarlamak)

2. (transitive) to befoul, to stain or mar with infamy or disgrace

Descendants

• Turkish: kirlemek

Further reading

• 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