ییقمق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms
  • یقمق‎ (yıkmak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yïk- (“to crush”)[1]; cognate with Azerbaijani yıxmaq, Crimean Tatar yıqmaq and Khalaj yıqmaq.

Verb

ییقمق • (yıkmak)

  1. (transitive) to demolish, knock down, pull down, to destroy a building
  2. (transitive) to destroy, ruin, to damage something beyond use or repair
  3. (transitive) to unload, to take the load off an animal or vehicle
  4. (transitive, figuratively) to hurt somebody's feelings, to cause emotional pain
    Synonym: داغلامق‎ (dağlamak)

Derived terms
  • ییقغین‎ (yıkgın, “in ruins”)
  • ییقق‎ (yıkık, “demolished; ruinous”)
  • ییقلش‎ (yıkıliş, “a manner of falling down”)
  • ییقلمق‎ (yıkılmak, “to be demolished”)
  • ییقم‎ (yıkım, “single act of demolition”)
  • ییقندی‎ (yıkındı, “debris”)
  • ییقنمق‎ (yıkınmak, “to throw one's self down”)
  • ییویجی‎ (yıkıcı, “that abitually demolishes”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: yıkmak

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

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