آرسلانلنمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From آرسلان‎ (arslan, “lion”) +‎ ـلنمق‎ (-lanmak, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in back vowels).

Verb

آرسلانلنمق • (arslanlanmak)

(intransitive) to become bold and brave like a lion

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890), “آرسلانلنمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 843

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