قیصمق

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Ottoman Turkish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *kïs- (to squeeze).

Verb

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قیصمق (kısmak)

  1. to catch, pinch
  2. to fold, crease
  3. to reduce
    1. to lower one's voice
    2. to be stingy with money, to spend less on

Descendants

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  • Gagauz: kısmaa
  • Turkish: kısmak

References

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  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kısmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2637
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیصمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1508
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “قیصمق”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 703a
  • Baskakov, N. A. (1991) İsmail Kaynak, A. Mecit Doğru, transl., Gagauz Türkçesinin Sözlüğü [The Dictionary of Gagauz Turkish] (in Turkish), Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, page 148