sarsmak
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish صارسمق, صارصمق (sarsmak, “to shake with a shock, to joggle”), from Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Cognate to Karakhanid [script needed] (sarsıtmāk, “to ill-use, treat harshly”), [script needed] (sarsıɣlı, “violent”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (sarsıɣ, “harsh”), Azerbaijani sarsımaq (“to be shaken, shocked”), Chagatai [script needed] (sarsamaq, “to be shaken, quiver”), Turkmen sarsmak (“to shudder, quiver”). Clauson thinks there is no obvious semantic connection to modern Turkish, Azeri and Turkmen forms.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sarsmak (third-person singular simple present sarsar)
- (transitive) to shake, convulse, jar, jolt
- (transitive) to shock
- (transitive) to affect, weaken, upset, afflict
Conjugation
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[edit]References
[edit]- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sarsmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “sarsı:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 854
Further reading
[edit]- “sarsmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu