زنجیرلنمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From زنجیر (zincir, “chain”) +‎ ـلنمك (-lenmek, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in front vowels).

Verb

زنجیرلنمك • (zincirlenmek)

1. (intransitive) to be chained, to be fastened with a chain
2. (intransitive) to be connected as a chain or series

Descendants

• Turkish: zincirlenmek
• → Armenian: զինճիլլէմիշ (zinčillēmiš), զնջիլլա̈միշ (znǰillämiš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zincirlenmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5487
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زنجیرلنمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 648
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زنجیرلنمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1016