قیرمق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïr- (“to break”); cognate with Azerbaijani qırmaq, Bashkir ҡырыу (qırıw), Chuvash хир (hir), Kazakh қыру (qyru), Kyrgyz кыруу (kıruu), Turkmen gyrmak, Uyghur قىرماق (qirmaq), Uzbek qirmoq and Yakut кырый (kırıy).

Verb

قیرمق • (kırmak)

  1. (transitive) to break, fracture, crack, to separate into two or more pieces under force, stress, or pressure
    Synonym: صیمق (sımak)
  2. (transitive, figuratively) to offend, to wound or hurt someone's feelings, to cause somebody emotional pain
    Synonyms: داغلامق (dağlamak), ییقمق (yıkmak)
  3. (transitive) to fold, crease, pleat, to bend any thin material over so that it comes in contact with itself
    Synonyms: بوكمك (bükmek), قاتلامق (katlamak)
  4. (transitive, of war, diseases, or cold) to decimate, massacre, devastate, to kill in considerable numbers
    Synonym: یوق ایتمك (yok etmek)
  5. (transitive) to abate, mitigate, relieve, soothe, assuage, alleviate, to lessen something in force or intensity
    Synonym: یاتشدرمق (yatışdırmak)
  6. (transitive) to abate, discount, rebate, to lower, diminish, reduce, or cut something in price or value

Derived terms

  • بورونی قیرمق (burunu kırmak, “to abate the pride of a person”)
  • عسكر قیرمق (ʼasker kırmak, “to annihilate troops”)
  • قوز قیرمق (koz kırmak, “to speak out improperly”)
  • قیران (kıran, “that breaks or kills”)
  • قیرشمق (kırışmak, “to kill or destroy one another”)
  • قیرغین (kırgın, “broken; hurt, offended”)
  • قیرق (kırık, “fragment, splinter”)
  • قیرلمق (kırılmak, “to be broken”)
  • قیرمه (kırma, “pleat, folder, crease”)
  • قیرندی (kırındı, “fragment, crumb”)
  • قیریم (kırım, “a single act of breaking”)
  • پاره قیرمق (para kırmak, “to coin money”)
  • قرباچ (kırbaç, “whip, lash”)
  • قرقمق (kırkmak, “to clip, shear, trim”)
  • قرپمق (kırpmak, “to clip, shear, trim”)

Descendants

  • Gagauz: kırmaa
  • Turkish: kırmak
  • → Armenian: խըռմիշ (xəṙmiš), կըռմիշ (kəṙmiš)

Further reading

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