جهنملك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From جهنم (cehennem, “hell”) +‎ ـلك (-lik).

Adjective

جهنملك • (cehennemlik)

  1. deserving of hell; damnable

Noun

جهنملك • (cehennemlik)

  1. the furnace used to heat a Turkish bath
    Synonym: كولخان (külhan)

Further reading

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “cehennem”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “cehennemlik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 769
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “جهنملك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 453a
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