kartlaşmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قارتلاشمق (kartlaşmak, to grow old), equivalent to kart (hoary, old) + -laş (to become). Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kạrï (old, to get old).[1]

Verb

kartlaşmak

  1. (slang, offensive) to grow old
    Synonyms: yaşlanmak, kocamak, ihtiyarlamak

Conjugation

Further reading

  • kartlaşmak in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *Kạrɨ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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