قازمق
Old Anatolian Turkish
Etymology
Verb
قَازْمَقْ • (qazmaq)
Descendants
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))
- (transitive) to dig, delve, excavate, hollow, to remove material like soil, sand, or rock on the surface
- Synonym: حفر ایتمك (hafr etmek)
- (transitive) to engrave, carve, incise, inscribe, to write or cut words or symbols onto a hard surface
- Synonym: یازمق (yazmak)
Derived terms
Related terms
- قازیق (kazık, “peg, pale, stake”)
Descendants
- Turkish: kazmak
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قازمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 457
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kazmak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2511
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قازمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 350a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قازمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 927
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Excavare”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 492
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قازمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3582
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaz-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قازمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1414