قازمق

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Proto-Turkic *kaŕ-.

Verb

قَازْمَقْ • (qazmaq)

  1. (transitive) to dig
    Antonym: كُومْمَكْ (gömmäk)

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: qazmaq
  • Gagauz: kazmaa
  • Ottoman Turkish: قازمق (kazmak), قزمق (kazmak)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • قزمق (kazmak)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish قَازْمَقْ (qazmaq), from Proto-Turkic *kaŕ- (to dig). Cognate with Azerbaijani qazmaq, Bashkir ҡазыу (qazıw), Kazakh қазу (qazu), Kyrgyz казуу (kazuu), Turkmen gazmak, Uzbek qozmoq and Yakut хас (qas).

Verb

قازمق • (kazmak) (third-person singular aorist قازار (kazar))

  1. (transitive) to dig, delve, excavate, hollow, to remove material like soil, sand, or rock on the surface
    Synonym: حفر ایتمك (hafr etmek)
  2. (transitive) to engrave, carve, incise, inscribe, to write or cut words or symbols onto a hard surface
    Synonym: یازمق (yazmak)

Derived terms

  • قازاق (kazak, dug, scraped)
  • قازتمق (kazıtmak, to make or let be scraped)
  • قازدرمق (kazdırmak, to make or let be dug)
  • قازلمق (kazılmak, to be dug, excavated)
  • قازمه (kazma, pick, mattock; excavation)
  • قازیش (kazış, excavation, digging)
  • لغم قازمق (lağım kazmak, to dig a sewer)

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