Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *saru- (to wind around);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani sarımaq, Chuvash сырма (syrma), Karakhanid [script needed] (sarūmāk), Khakas сарирға (sarirğa), Tatar сарырга (sarırga) and Turkmen saramak.

Verb

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صارمق (sarmak) (third-person singular aorist صارار (sarar))

  1. (transitive) to wrap, wind, bind, to enclose or coil around an object or organism
    Synonym: طولامق (dolamak)
  2. (transitive) to surround, environ, to encircle something or someone in all directions
    Synonym: قوشاتمق (kuşatmak)
  3. (transitive) to gird, girdle, begird, to encircle or constrain with, or as if with a belt
    Synonym: قوشاتمق (kuşatmak)
  4. (intransitive, of plants) to climb, trail, to grow upwards by clinging to something

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Turkish: sarmak
  • Armenian: սարմիշ (sarmiš)

References

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

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