بولمق

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bul-.

Verb

بُولْمَقْ • (bulmaq)

1. (transitive) to find

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: bulmaq
• Gagauz: bulmaa
• Ottoman Turkish: بولمق (bulmak)
  • Turkish: bulmak

Further reading

• XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎^[1] (in Turkish), volume I, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963, page 466
• Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022), A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 94

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bulga-.

Verb

بُولَمَقْ • (bulamaq)

1. (transitive) to stir up, to mix up
2. (transitive) to mix, to scramble
3. (transitive) to shake

Derived terms

• بُولَشْمَقْ (bulaşmaq)
• بُولَمَاجْ (bulamāç)

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: bulamaq
• Gagauz: bulamaa
• Ottoman Turkish: بولامق (bulamak)
  • Turkish: bulamak

Further reading

• Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022), A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 94, 93
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “bulamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 690

Etymology 3

Verb

بُولْمَقْ • (bolmaq)

1. alternative form of اُولْمَقْ (olmaq, “to be”)

Descendants

• Ottoman Turkish: بولمق (bolmak)

Further reading

• XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎^[2] (in Turkish), volume I, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963, page 108
• Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022), A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 174

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (bulmaq), from Proto-Turkic *bul- (“to find”).

Verb

بولمق • (bulmak)

1. to find

   Synonym: طاپمق (tapmak)

2. to discover

   Synonym: كشف ایتمك (keşf etmek)

Descendants

• Turkish: bulmak

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *bōl- (“to be”).

Verb

بولمق • (bolmak)

1. (archaic) to become
2. (archaic) to happen

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بولمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 410