دوگمه‌لنمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From دوگمه (düğme, “button”) +‎ ـلنمك (-lenmek, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in front vowels).

Verb

دوگمه‌لنمك • (düğmelenmek) (intransitive)

to button up, to fasten all the buttons on a coat
(of a coat or other clothes) to become furnished with buttons

Descendants

Turkish: düğmelenmek

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “düğmelenmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1320
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دوگمه‌لنمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 925

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