آزمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āŕ- (“to go astray”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰀𐰕 (az /⁠āz-⁠/), Azerbaijani azmaq, Bashkir аҙыу (aźıw), Chuvash урма (urma), Karakhanid اازْماقْ (āzmāq), Southern Altai азар (azar) and Turkmen azmak.

Verb

آزمق • (azmak)

1. (intransitive) to stray, wander, err, to lose the way, to deviate from a course
2. (intransitive) to go astray, stray, err, to deviate from the path of duty or rectitude
3. (intransitive) to go mad, to become furious and unmanageable, dangerous, or ferocious
4. (intransitive, of water) to overflow, to flow over the brim or edge of a container

   Synonym: طاشمق (taşmak)

5. (intransitive) to overgrow, to grow enormously and anomalously, to become monstrous and gigantic
6. (intransitive, for anything) to assume alarming proportions, to become very serious and threatening

Derived terms

• آزشمق (azışmak, “to mutually grow exasperated”)
• آزغین (azgın, “stray, astray”)
• آزمان (azman, “overgrown, gigantic”)
• آزمش (azmış, “who has done an outrageous action”)
• آزمه (azma, “monstrosity”)
• دوش آزمق (duş azmak, “to have a wet dream”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: azmak
• → Macedonian: аздисува (azdisuva)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “azmak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 406
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آزمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 26b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آزمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 17
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Errare”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 478
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آزمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 165-166
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “az-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آزمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 81