آشمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آشمق (aşmaq, “to pass, surpass”), from Proto-Common Turkic *āš- (“to cross (a mountain), to surpass”).

Cognates

Cognate with Azerbaijani aşmaq, Bashkir ашыу (aşıw), Kazakh асу (asu), Khakas азарға (azarğa), Kyrgyz ашуу (aşuu), Southern Altai ажар (ažar), Turkmen aşmak, Tuvan ажар (ajar), Uyghur ئاشماق (ashmaq), Uzbek oshmoq and Yakut аас (aas).

Verb

آشمق • (aşmak) (third-person singular aorist آشار (aşar))

  1. (transitive, especially of geographical formations) to pass, cross, traverse (to go from one side of something to the other)
    Synonym: كچمك (geçmek)
    طاغلری آشمق ― dağları aşmak ― to traverse mountains
    • 16th Century, Gelibolulu Mustafa, مركات الجهاد [Steps of Jihad], page 249b:
      یولی اول بیشه‌زاره اوغرایوب قله جبلدن آشدی
      yolı ol bîşe-zâra oğrayup kulle-i cebelden aşdı
      His path swung by that forest and crossed the top of the mountain
  2. (transitive) to surpass, exceed, forpass, transcend, to go beyond
    Synonym: كچمك (geçmek)
  3. (intransitive) to climb, mount, ascend (to make a gradual ascent)
    Synonym: یوكسلمك (yükselmek)
  4. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) (intransitive, figurative) to cross the line, go too far, overstep

Derived terms

  • آشرمق (aşırmak, “to exceed; to steal”)
  • آششمق (aşışmak, “to mate”)
  • آشنمق (aşınmak, “to wear away”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: aşmak

Further reading

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  • Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آشمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 63
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آشمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 42b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آشمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 19
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Superare”, 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[3], Vienna, column 1628
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آشمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[4], Vienna, column 246
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آشمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 124
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