delmek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish دلمك (delmek),[1] from Proto-Turkic *del- (to bore through).[2]

Verb

delmek

  1. to broach
  2. to pierce
    kulağını deldirdin mi? - did you (singular, informal) have your ear pierced?

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 912
  2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*del-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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