basmak
Appearance
See also: başmak
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish باصمق (basmak, “to press, print, coin money, tread on, overpower”),[1] from Proto-Turkic *bas- (“to press”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]basmak (third-person singular simple present basar)
- (intransitive) to step on, to stand on [with dative]
- Bastığın yerlerde güller açtı, ...
- Roses blossomed where you stood, ...
- Yeni yağmış kara basmaya bayılıyorum.
- I love stepping on fresh, powdery snow.
- (intransitive) (of toddlers) to stand [with dative]
- (intransitive) to press (e.g. on a pedal, button, key) [with dative]
- Bas gaza.
- Step on the gas.
- (intransitive) (of a button, key, etc.) to function properly, to do what it's meant to
- Hiçbir sıkıntı yokken tuş basmamaya başladı.
- For no good reason the key started not to work.
- Ben bastım ama tuş basmadı.
- I did press it but the button didn't work.
- (ditransitive) to stuff [with accusative and dative]
- Synonym: tepmek
- peyniri küpe basmak. ― to stuff the cheese into the earthenware jar
- (transitive) to print, to publish, to press
- Synonym: tabetmek
- Kitabınızı ücretsiz basıyoruz.
- We publish your book for free.
- (transitive) to cover
- Synonym: bürümek, kaplamak, örtmek
- Yollarını ot basmış olan bu büyük köşk.
- This big mansion whose roads leaves have covered.
- (ditransitive) to impress, to imprint, to stamp (the tool used, such as a stamp or a seal, is the direct object; and the document which gets stamped is the indirect object)
- Şuraya başparmağını bas, dediler, ben de bastım.
- They told me to impress (something) with my thumbprint and I did it.
- (transitive) to raid
- Ölen kızın intikamını almak için köyü basıp yakmış.
- (I heard) he raided and burned down the village to revenge the girl who died.
- (intransitive) to turn, to reach a certain age [with dative]
- On dokuz yaşına yeni basmış, ürkek ve utangaç bir kızdım.
- I was a shy and timid girl who just turned 19.
- (intransitive) (of fog, smoke, etc.) to cover
- Synonym: çökmek
- Şehri akşamüstü sis basmıştı.
- Fog has covered the city, right before the evening.
- (transitive) to pump (to use a pump to move liquid or gas)
- Pompa bozulmuş, suyu basmıyor.
- Pump was broken, it doesn't pump the water.
- (intransitive) (of poultry) to incubate
- (transitive) to catch (to discover in an unpleasant state)
- Kocamı yatağımızda başka kadınla bastım.
- I caught my husband in bed with another woman.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to get overwhelmed by an emotion
- Sıkıntı basmış, terlemeye başlamıştı.
- Upon having problems arise, s/he started to sweat.
- (weightlifting, slang) to lift an amount of weight, to do an exercise with said amount of load
- Bench press'te 90 kilo basıyorum.
- I can bench press 90 kilos.
- (informal) (of motored vehicles) to be able to go at a said speed
- BMW kaç basıyor?
- How fast a BMW can go?
- (figuratively, + dative + kafa + possessive suffix ~) (usually in negative clauses) to comprehend
- Kafam bu işe basmıyor ya.
- I just cannot comprehend what's happening.
- (vulgar) to fuck [with dative]
Conjugation
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890), “باصمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 327
- ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bas-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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