اوكورمك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• اوكرمك (öğürmek)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ȫkür- (“to belch; to nauseate”); cognate with Azerbaijani öyümək, Chuvash ӳхӗр (üh̬ĕr), Karakhanid اُقٖيماقْ (oqï:ma:q), Kazakh өкіру (ökıru), Kyrgyz өкүрүү (ökürüü), Turkmen ȫgemek, Uzbek o‘kirmoq and Yakut өҕүй (öğüy)

Verb

اوكورمك • (öğürmek)

1. (intransitive) to bellow, bawl, croon, to make a loud, deep, hollow noise typical of cattle

   Synonyms: بوكورمك (büğürmek), چاغرمق (çağırmak)

2. (intransitive) to retch, gag, heave, to make or experience an effort to vomit or throw up

Derived terms

• اوكورتمك (öğürtmek, “to make or let bellow”)
• اوكورمه (öğürme, “retch”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: öğürmek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “öğürmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3680
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوكرمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 196
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mugire”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1091
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوكرمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 532
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “öğür-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوكورمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 264