خروسلانمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From خروس (horos, “rooster, cock”) +‎ ـلنمق (-lanmak, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in back vowels).

Verb

خروسلانمق • (horoslanmak)

(intransitive) to show off, swagger, strut, to walk haughtily or proudly with one's head held high

Descendants

Turkish: horozlanmak
→ Armenian: խօրօզլանմիշ (xōrōzlanmiš)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “horozlanmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1986
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خروسلانمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 538
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خروسلانمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 843

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