صارمق

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Ottoman Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *saru- (to wind around);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani sarımaq, Chuvash сырма (syrma), Karakhanid [script needed] (sarūmāk), Khakas сарирға (sarirğa), Tatar сарырга (sarırga) and Turkmen saramak.

Verb[edit]

صارمق (sarmak)

  1. (transitive) to wrap, wind, to enclose or coil around an object or organism
  2. (transitive) to surround, environ, to encircle something or someone in all directions
  3. (transitive) to gird, girdle, to encircle or constrain with, or as if with a belt
  4. (intransitive, of plants) to climb, trail, to grow upwards by clinging to something

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Gagauz: sarmak
  • Turkish: sarmak
  • Armenian: սարմիշ (sarmiš)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sạr-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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