bocalamak

== Turkish == === Etymology === From Ottoman Turkish پوجه‌لمق (pocalamak), verbal form of پوجه (poca), from Italian poggia, imperative of poggiare. In Turkish the nautical sense is the original. === Verb === bocalamak (third-person singular simple present bocalar) (nautical) veer to falter, stagger, act confused 1929 December 6, headline in Yarın: ==== Related terms ==== boca === References === 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[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 456 Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN