yırtmak

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish یرتمق (yırtmak, to tear, rend, slit), causative of یره‌ق (yırmak, to tear), from Proto-Turkic *yīr-, *yï̄r- (to split lengthwise, to break, tear).[1] Causative form replaced the original verb, see dialectal yırmak.

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (yırt-, to tear), Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar yırtmaq (to tear), Kyrgyz жыртуу (jırtuu, to tear), Turkmen ýyrtmak (to tear), Tuvan чирер (çirer, to break away, jag), Uzbek yirtmoq (to tear), Yakut сиир (siir, to tear). Compare also (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mongolian жиргэх (jirgeh, to chop, hack, split).

Verb

yırtmak (third-person singular simple present yırtar)

  1. (transitive) to tear, rend, rip
  2. (transitive) to tear, lacerate
  3. (transitive) to break in (a colt)
  4. (slang) to land on one's feet, come out smiling

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jīr- / *jɨ̄r-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill