بوزمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *buŕ- / *boŕ- (“to damage, destroy”); cognate with Azerbaijani pozmaq, Bashkir боҙоу (boźow), Chuvash пӑс (păs), Kazakh бұзу (būzu), Kyrgyz бузуу (buzuu) and Uzbek buzmoq.

Verb

بوزمق • (bozmak)

1. (transitive) to demolish, knock down, pull down, to destroy a building

   Synonym: ییقمق (yıkmak)

2. (transitive) to destroy, ruin, to damage something beyond use or repair

   Synonym: ییقمق (yıkmak)

3. (transitive) to corrupt, deprave, pervert, to change from good to bad
4. (transitive) to vitiate, spoil, to reduce the value or quality of something
5. (transitive) to disturb, to confuse a constant state or a continuous flow
6. (transitive) to nullify, cancel, invalidate, to make something legally invalid

   Synonym: ابطال ایتمك (ibtal etmek)

7. (transitive) to abolish, abrogate, to end a law, institution, custom or practice
8. (transitive) to taint, to contaminate or corrupt either physically or morally
9. (transitive) to obliterate, deface, to damage or vandalize something, like a surface
10. (transitive) to adulterate, to spoil something by adding impurities or other substances

Derived terms

• آبدست بوزمق (abdest bozmak, “to ease nature”)
• آقچه بوزمق (akça bozmak, “to give small change for money”)
• اوروج بوزمق (oruc bozmak, “to break the fast”)
• بوزان (bozan, “who or which spoils”)
• بوزدرمق (bozdurmak, “to make or let be spoilt”)
• بوزش (bozuş, “mode or degree of spoiling”)
• بوزشمق (bozuşmak, “to quarrel”)
• بوزغون (bozgun, “deranged; spoilt”)
• بوزلمق (bozulmak, “to become spoilt”)
• بوزم (bozum, “act of breaking up”)
• بوزمه (bozma, “pervert, proselyte”)
• بوزنتی (bozuntu, “old materials, scraps”)
• بوزوق (bozuk, “spoilt; corrupted”)
• بوزیجی (bozucu, “one who abitually spoils”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: bozmak
  • → Ladino: bozear

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bozmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 668
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بوزمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 131a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوزمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 286
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Corrumpere”, 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^[4], Vienna, column 293
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوزمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 920
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “boz-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوزمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 399