sarsmak

Turkish

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /saɾs.mak/

Verb

sarsmak (third-person singular simple present sarsar)

  1. (transitive) to shake, convulse, jar, jolt
  2. (transitive) to shock
  3. (transitive) to affect, weaken, upset, afflict

Conjugation

Synonyms

References

  1. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “sarsı:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 854

Further reading

  • sarsmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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