Where does “بوقلامق” come from?

بوقلامق (Ottoman Turkish) comes from Arabic بوق, from Old Turkic پوخ, from Proto-Turkic bok — feces; dirt, dung.

بوقلامق (Ottoman Turkish): to befoul, soil, contaminate, especially with feces

Definitions

  1. to befoul, soil, contaminate, especially with feces

Ancestry of “بوقلامق”, step by step

بوقلامق traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Arabic بوق

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicبوقtrumpet, conch; presenting falsities deliberately...
2Old Turkicپوخ
3Proto-Turkicbokfeces; dirt, dung

via Ottoman Turkish ـلا

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishـلا
Every word from Proto-Turkic bok