pusmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پوصمق (pusmak, “to crouch and hide, to lie in wait”), from Proto-Turkic *bus- (“to hide, lay an ambush”).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (bus-, “to ambush”), Azerbaijani pusmaq (“to spy”), Bashkir боҫоу (bośow, “to hide, lurk”), Turkmen busmak (“to hide”), Uzbek pismoq.

Verb

pusmak (third-person singular simple present pusar)

  1. (intransitive) to crouch down; to hide behind something

Conjugation

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • pusma
  • pusuş
  • pusucu
  • suspus
  • pusulmak
  • pusturmak
  • pusmamak
  • pusamamak
  • pusabilmek

References

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