كولمك

Ottoman Turkish

گولمك

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kül- (“to laugh”); cognate with Azerbaijani gülmək, Bashkir көлөү (kölöw), Chuvash кул (kul), Kazakh күлу (külu), Kyrgyz күлүү (külüü), Turkmen gülmek, Uyghur كۈلمەك (külmek), Uzbek kulmoq and Yakut күл (kül).

Verb

گولمك • (gülmek)

1. (intransitive) to laugh, show mirth by peculiar movements of the muscles of the face
2. (intransitive) to smile, show joy by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth
3. (intransitive) to laugh at, mock, deride, make an object of laughter or ridicule

Derived terms

• گولم (gülüm, “laugh”)
• گولمز (gülmez, “who does not laugh, serious”)
• گولمسیمك (gülümsemek, “to smile very lightly”)
• گولمه (gülme, “laughter”)
• گولنج (gülenc, “funny, comic”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: gülmek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gülmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1797
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كولمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1059
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ridere”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1485
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كولمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 4091-4092
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gül-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كولمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1601