طارتمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tart- (to pull); cognate with Azerbaijani dartmaq, Bashkir тартыу (tartıw), Chuvash туртма (turtma), Kazakh тарту (tartu), Kyrgyz тартуу (tartuu), Turkmen tartmak, Uyghur تارتماق (tartmaq), Uzbek tortmoq and Yakut тарт (tart).

Verb

طارتمق • (tartmak) (third-person singular aorist طارتار (tartar))

  1. (transitive) to weigh, to determine the weight of an object or to measure a certain amount of something by its weight
    Synonym: وزن ایتمك (vezn etmek)
  2. (transitive) to ponder, gauge, to consider something carefully and thoroughly, to estimate deliberately and maturely

Derived terms

  • طارتش (tartış, a manner of weighing)
  • طارتشمق (tartışmak, to weigh or try together)
  • طارتقی (tartkı, buckle to a girth-strap)
  • طارتلمق (tartılmak, to be weighed)
  • طارتمه (tartma, action of weighing)
  • طارته (tarta, in weighing)
  • طارتی (tartı, a weight)
  • طارتیجی (tartıcı, one who habitually weighs)
  • كندینی طارتمق (kendini tartmak, to reflect)
  • پابوش طارتمق (pabuş tartmak, to strut slowly along, literally to weigh the shoes)

Descendants

  • Turkish: tartmak
  • Armenian: թարթել (tʻartʻel)Constantinople

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