قوصمق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قوسمق (kusmak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kus- (“to vomit”); cognate with Azerbaijani qusmaq, Chuvash хӑсак (hăs̬ak), Kazakh құсу (qūsu), Kyrgyz кусуу (kusuu), Turkmen gusmak, Uyghur قۇسماق (qusmaq) and Uzbek qusmoq.

Verb

قوصمق • (kusmak)

1. (transitive) to vomit, throw up, puke, to regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Derived terms

• قان قوصمق (kan kusmak, “to vomit blood”)
• قوصدرمق (kusdurmak, “to make or let vomit”)
• قوصمیق (kusmuk, “vomited matter, vomit”)
• قوصندی (kusundu, “vomited matter, vomit”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kusmak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kusmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2859
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوصمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 375a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوصمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 984
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vomere”, 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 1789
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوصمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3797
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kus-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوصمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1489