لطیفه ایتمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From لطیفه (latife, “joke, jest”) + ایتمك (etmek, “to do; to make”).

Verb

لطیفه ایتمك • (latife etmek)

  1. (intransitive) to joke, jest, prank, to do or say something for amusement rather than seriously
    Synonym: شقا ایتمك (şaka etmek)

Descendants

  • Turkish: latife etmek

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “latife etmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2943
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Jocari”, 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[1], Vienna, column 867
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “لطیفه ایتمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[2], Vienna, column 4176
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “لطیفه ایتمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1633
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