طیامق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• دایامق (dayamak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *taya- (“to prop up”); cognate with Azerbaijani dayamaq, Bashkir таяү (tayaw), Karakhanid تياماق (tayāmāq), Southern Altai тайаар (tayaar), Uzbek tayamoq and Yakut тайаа (tayaa).

Verb

طیامق • (dayamak)

1. (transitive) to prop up, shore up, to support with, or as if with, a prop

   Synonym: قولتقلامق (koltuklamak)

Derived terms

• اوروجه طیامق (oruca dayamak, “to endure fasting”)
• طیاتمق (dayatmak, “to make or let be propped”)
• طیاق (dayak, “prop, support”)
• طیانمق (dayanmak, “to lean or press against”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: dayamaa
• Turkish: dayamak

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “طیامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 333
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dayamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1117
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طیامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 826
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “daya-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طیامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1266