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
    Synonym: بوزمق (bozmak)
  2. (transitive) to destroy, ruin, to damage something beyond use or repair
    Synonym: بوزمق (bozmak)
  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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