aşmak

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آشمق (aşmak, “to pass, go beyond, pass the limits”), from Old Anatolian Turkish آشمق (aşmaq, “to cross, overflow”), from Proto-Common Turkic *āš- (“to cross (a mountain), to surpass”).

• IPA^(key): /aʃˈmak/
• Hyphenation: aş‧mak

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• Rhymes: -mɑk

aşmak (third-person singular simple present aşar)

1. (transitive) to cross, traverse (a mountain, a river, a sea); to go through; to traverse

   Synonym: geçmek

   dağları aşmak ― to traverse mountains

2. (transitive) to overcome, to surmount, to get over

   korkusunu aşmak ― to overcome one's fear

3. (transitive) to surpass, exceed, to be more than, to be in excess of

   süreyi aşmak ― to exceed the duration of time

4. (transitive) to transcend; to pass beyond the limits of something

   haddini aşmak ― to cross the line (literally, “to transcend one's boundaries”)

5. (transitive, of animals) to mate

   Synonym: çiftleşmek

• “aşmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “aşmak”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “aşmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• “aşmak”, in Köken Bilgisi Sözlüğü‎^[1], Türk Dil Kurumu, 2011–