bocalamak

From Ottoman Turkish پوجه‌لمق‎ (pocalamak), verbal form of پوجه‎ (poca), from Italian poggia, imperative of poggiare. In Turkish the nautical sense is the original.

bocalamak (third-person singular simple present bocalar)

1. (nautical) veer
2. to falter, stagger, act confused
   • 1929 December 6, headline in Yarın:

     Borsada bir hâdise: İngiliz bocalıyor!

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• boca

• Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée; Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 507
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “boca”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پوجه‌لمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 456
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN