بایلمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bańï- (“to fade away, disappear, weaken”);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani bayılmaq, Bashkir байыу (bayıw), Karakhanid [script needed] (baju-) and Kyrgyz баюу (bayuu).

Verb

بایلمق • (bayılmak)

  1. (intransitive) to faint, pass out, swoon, black out, to lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain
    Synonym: اوغنمق (oğunmak)
  2. (intransitive) to be excessively delighted, to be enraptured, stoked, spellbound, or entranced as if by a spell [with dative]
    آمان بایلدم شوكا ― aman bayıldım şuna ― I am enraptured with that!
  3. (intransitive, of plants) to droop, sag, wilt, to hang downward or sink by its weight because of draught or excessive heat
    Synonym: صولمق (solmak)
  4. (intransitive, slang) to stump up, cough up, shell out, to pay a great deal of money for something, often with reluctance
    • Latife (in Ottoman Turkish), number 2, 15 August 1874, page 3: “وای وای وای جانم. كوله‌جكم دیه تیاترویه بر غروش باییلانلره. ― Vay vay vay canım. Güleceğim diye tiyatroya bir kuruş bayılanlara. ― Woe to those who cough up a piastre for the theatre to laugh.”

Derived terms

  • بایغین (baygın, “fainted”)
  • بایغینلق (baygınlık, “swoon”)
  • بایلتمق (bayıltmak, “to make or let faint”)
  • بایلش (bayılış, “mode or degree of fainting”)
  • بایلمه (bayılma, “act of fainting”)
  • كولمدن بایلمق (gülmeden bayılmak, “to laugh excessively”, literally “to faint away with laughter”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: bayılmak
  • → Albanian: bajalldis
  • → Armenian: պայըլմիշ (payəlmiš)

References

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

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