آقسرمق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• آخسرمق (ahsırmak), آغسرمق (ağsırmak), آقسیرمق (aksırmak), آقصرمق (aksırmak), آكصرمق (añsırmak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *askïr- (“to sneeze”); cognate with Azerbaijani asqırmaq, Salar aqsır, Turkmen asgyrmak, Tuvan азырар (azırar) and Uzbek aksirmoq.

Verb

آقسرمق • (aksırmak) (third-person singular aorist آقسرر (aksırır))

1. (intransitive) to sneeze, sternutate, to expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose

Derived terms

• آقسرتمق (aksırtmak, “to make or let sneeze”)
• آقسرش (aksırış, “any mode of sneezing”)
• آقسرق (aksırık, “sneeze”)
• آقسرمه (aksırma, “sneeze”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: ansırmaa
• Turkish: aksırmak

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آقسرمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 86
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dalmak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1088
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آقسرمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 54b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آقسیرمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 28
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sternutare”, 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 1597
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آقسرمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 340
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “aksır-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آقسرمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 165