savmak
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish صاومق,[1] from Proto-Turkic *sab- (“to stop, finish, to be stopped”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]savmak (third-person singular simple present savar)
- to fend off, to strike away
- uçaksavar ― anti-aircraft artillery
- to get rid (of someone or something)
Conjugation
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890), “صاومق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1164
- ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*sab-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill