Etymology
From آشاغی (aşağı, “lower, inferior”) + ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آشاغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 60
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aşağılamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 328
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آشاغیلامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 19
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آشاغیلمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 117