يوذماق

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *yōd- (to destroy). Related to يُوقْ (yōq, there isn't).

Cognate with Turkmen ýoýmak, Kazakh жойу (joiu) and Tuvan чодар (çodar).

Verb

يُوذْماقْ (yōδmāq) (third-person singular aorist يُوذارْ (yōδār))

  1. (transitive) to wipe, erase
    اُلْ تُبْراقْ يُوزِنْدِنْ يُوذْتٖىOl toprāq yǖzindin yōδtï̄.He wiped the dust off his face.
  2. (transitive) destroy, obliterate, ruin
    اُلْ بِتِكْ يُوذْتٖىOl bitig yōδtï̄.He obliterated the writing.

Derived terms

  • يُتّرْماقْ (yotturmāq, to make obliterate)
  • يُذُتْ (yoδut, destructive, damaging)
  • يُذُشْماقْ (yoδušmāq, to help wipe, remove, obliterate)
  • يُذُغْ (yoδuğ, a word used when someone is caught for someone else's crime)
  • يُذُلْماقْ (yoδulmāq, to be wiped, erased)
  • يُذْساماقْ (yoδsāmāq, to wish to obliterate)
  • يُذْلُشْماقْ (yoδlušmāq, to be obliterated)

References

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yo:ḏ-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 885

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