بولامق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بُولَمَقْ (bulamaq), from Proto-Turkic *bulga- (to stir). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰍𐰀 (b¹ul¹ǧa /⁠bulɣa-⁠/), Azerbaijani bulamaq, Bashkir болғау (bolğaw), Chuvash пӑлхан (pălh̬an), Kazakh бұлғау (būlğau), Kyrgyz булгоо (bulgoo), Turkmen bulamak, Uyghur بۇلغىماق (bulghimaq) and Uzbek bulgʻamoq.

Verb

بولامق • (bulamak) (third-person singular aorist بولار (bular))

  1. (transitive) to stir, to disturb the relative position of the particles of a liquid by passing an object through it
    Synonym: قارشدرمق (karışdırmak)
  2. (transitive) to coat, to cover, bedaub, smear or besmear something across its surface with a sticky substance

Derived terms

  • اونه بولامق (una bulamak, to roll in flour)
  • بولاشمق (bulaşmak, to adhere as a smear)
  • بولاماج (bulamac, kind of porridge)
  • بولامدی (bulamadı, profusion, waste)
  • بولامه (bulama, grape juice boiled down)
  • بولانتی (bulantı, stirring up dregs in a fluid)
  • بولانمق (bulanmak, to become turbid)
  • بولایش (bulayış, mode of daubing or smearing)
  • توزه طوپراغی بولامق (toza toprağı bulamak, to roll in the dust)
  • قانه بولامق (kana bulamak, to smear with blood)
  • چاموره بولامق (çamura bulamak, to smear with mud; to sully)
  • یاغ بولامق (yağ bulamak, to spread butter or oil)
  • یوزینه بولامق (yüzine bulamak, to disarrange, botch, literally to besmear the face)

Descendants

  • Turkish: bulamak

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