pozmaq

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *buŕ-, *boŕ- (“to damage, destroy”).[1] Cognate with Turkish bozmak, Chuvash пӑс (păs, “break, destroy”), etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pozˈmɑχ]
  • Hyphenation: poz‧maq.
  • (file)

Verb

pozmaq

  1. (transitive) to erase (to remove what is written)
    yazıb pozmaq ― to write and to erase
  2. (transitive) to break (to violate, to not adhere to)
    qanunu pozmaq ― to break the law
    vədini pozmaq ― to break the promise
  3. (transitive) to break (to interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate)
    sükutu pozmaq ― to break the silence
    orucunu pozmaq ― to break the sawm
  4. (transitive) to disturb (to divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.)
    rahatlığını pozmaq ― to disturb someone's comfort
    əhvalını pozmaq ― to disturb someones's good mood, to upset someone
  5. to disorder, to disturb, to unsettle, disrupt
    bütün planları pozmaq ― to disrupt all plans
  6. to spoil, to ruin (to cause impairment of)
    sağlamlığı pozmaq ― to ruin the health
  7. to spoil (to ruin the character by overindulgence)
  8. to spoil (to debauch, to corrupt, to pervert, sometimes with sexual connotations)
  9. to dissolve, to annul
    nikahı pozmaq ― to dissolve the marriage

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • pozulmaq
  • pozuq (“erased; perverted”)
  • pozğun (“disorganized; perverted”)
    • pozğunluq (“disorder; debauchery, pervertededness”)
  • pozuntu

References

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