كوپورمك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• كوپرمك (köpürmek)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *köpür- (“to foam”), a development of *köp- (“to swell”), whence كوپوك (köpük, “foam, lather”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (köpür-), Southern Altai кӧбӱр- (köbür-, “to foam”), etc.

Verb

كوپورمك • (köpürmek)

1. (intransitive) to foam, froth, to form or emit foam
2. (intransitive) to effervesce, fizz, to emit small bubbles of dissolved gas

Derived terms

• آغیزی كوپورمك (ağızı köpürmek, “to foam at the mouth”)
• كوپورتكن (köpürtgen, “that makes things foam or froth”)
• كوپورتمك (köpürtmek, “to make or let foam or froth”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: köpürmek
• → Armenian: քէօփիւրմիշ (kʻēōpʻiwrmiš), քօպուրմիշ (kʻōpurmiš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “köpürmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2789
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كوپرمك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 398a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوپورمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1046
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Spumare”, 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 1589
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوپرمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4050
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “köpür-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوپورمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1581