صالمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish صالمق (salmaq, “to throw, drop”), from Proto-Turkic *sal- (“to put, throw, drop”).

Cognates

Cognate with Azerbaijani salmaq, Bashkir һалыу (halıw), Crimean Tatar salmaq, Chuvash сулма (sulma), Kazakh салу (salu), Kyrgyz салуу (saluu), Turkmen salmak, Tuvan салыр (salır), Uyghur سالماق (salmaq) and Uzbek solmoq.

Verb

صالمق • (salmak) (third-person singular aorist صالار (salar))(transitive)

  1. to release, loose, free, let go, relinquish
    Synonym: براقمق (bırakmak)
    دومان صالمق ― duman salmak ― to release smoke
    قوش صالماق ― kuş salmak ― to free a bird
  2. to throw, hurl, fling, cast, launch, toss
    Synonym: آتمق (atmak)
  3. to send, send off, dispatch
    Synonyms: ارسال ایتمك (irsâl etmek), سوق ایتمك (sevk etmek), كوندرمك (göndermek), یوللامق (yollamak)
  4. to postpone, put off, delay, defer, procrastinate
    Synonym: تأخیر ایتمك (teʼhir etmek)
  5. to lay out, arrange, set up, organize
    Synonyms: حاضرلامق (hazırlamak), قورمق (kurmak)
    تمل صالمق ― temel salmak ― to lay out a foundation
  6. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) to impose, enforce

Derived terms

  • سایه صالمق (saye salmak, “to afford protection”, literally “to send off shade”)
  • صالدرمق (saldırmak, “to attack”, literally “to cause to release”)
  • صالشمق (salışmak, “to throw at”)
  • صالنمق (salınmak, “to swing, rock, oscillate”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: salmak
  • → Armenian: սալմիշ (salmiš)

Further reading

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