كوفلنمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كوف (küf, “mold, mildew”) +‎ ـلنمك (-lenmek, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in front vowels).

Verb

كوفلنمك • (küflenmek)

(intransitive) to grow moldy, to become covered with mold
(intransitive, figuratively) to suffer from long neglect or trouble

Descendants

Turkish: küflenmek

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “küflenmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2884
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوفلنمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1055
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوفلنمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1596

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