ارماق

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ur-. Compare Khalaj hurmaq, Kyrgyz уруу (uruu), Turkmen urmak, Old Anatolian Turkish اورمق (urmaq), whence Azerbaijani vurmaq, Turkish vurmak, Gagauz urmaa.

Verb

اُرْماقْ (urmaq) (third-person singular aorist اُرُورْ (urūr))

1. (transitive) to hit, to beat, to strike

   اُلْ قُلِنْ اُرْدٖی ― ol qulïn urdï ― he hit his slave

2. (transitive) to put

   اَلِكِنْداكٖی نانْكْنٖی یِیرْدا اُرْدٖی

   eligindeki nēŋni yẹrde urdı

   he put the thing on his hand on the ground

Descendants

• Chagatai:
  • Uzbek: urmoq
  • Uyghur: ئۇرماق (urmaq)

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074), Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume 1, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, pages 164, 165