صارمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *saru- (“to wind around”);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani sarımaq, Chuvash сырма (syrma), Karakhanid [script needed] (sarūmāk), Khakas сарирға (sarirğa), Tatar сарырга (sarırga) and Turkmen saramak.

Verb

صارمق • (sarmak) (third-person singular aorist صارار (sarar))

  1. (transitive) to wrap, wind, bind, to enclose or coil around an object or organism
    Synonym: طولامق (dolamak)
  2. (transitive) to surround, environ, to encircle something or someone in all directions
    Synonym: قوشاتمق (kuşatmak)
  3. (transitive) to gird, girdle, begird, to encircle or constrain with, or as if with a belt
    Synonym: قوشاتمق (kuşatmak)
  4. (intransitive, of plants) to climb, trail, to grow upwards by clinging to something

Derived terms

  • آتش صارمق (ateş sarmak, “for flames to surround a thing”)
  • آصمه صارمق (asma sarmak, “for a vine to climb about a thing”)
  • ایشه صارمق (işe sarmak, “to go assidously to work at a matter”)
  • ایچنه صارمق (içine sarmak, “to make out with, to kiss”)
  • باشنه چوره صارمق (başına çevre sarmak, “to bind a handkerchief round one's head”)
  • باشه صارمق (başa sarmak, “to bind something about the head”)
  • صارق صارمق (sarık sarmak, “to make up a turban”)
  • صارلمق (sarılmak, “to be wrapped around a thing”)
  • صارماشمق (sarmaşmak, “to twine about”)
  • صارمه (sarma, “the act of winding”)
  • صارنمق (sarınmak, “to wrap about one's self”)
  • قیرق صارمق (kırık sarmak, “to bind up a broken bone”)
  • چیقق صارمق (çıkık sarmak, “to bandage a dislocated joint”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: sarmak
  • → Armenian: սարմիշ (sarmiš)

References

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

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