üzmek

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اوزمك (üzmek, to overstrain, break down, injure, hurt feelings, treat with harshness), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Turkic *üŕ- (to break, tear, demolish).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (üz-, to break, tear), Azerbaijani üzmək (to break), Bashkir өҙөү (öźöw, to tear, break), Khakas ӱзерге (üzerge, to break off, pick off), Kyrgyz үзүү (üzüü, to break, disrupt, pluck), Turkmen üzmek (to tear off, pluck), Uzbek uzmoq (to break, tear, pick).

Verb

üzmek (third-person singular simple present üzer)

  1. (transitive) to distress, upset, worry; to sadden
  2. (transitive) to abrade
  3. (transitive, dialectal) to break, tear

Conjugation

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See also

References

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