üzmek

From Ottoman Turkish اوزمك (üzmek, “to overstrain, break down, injure, hurt feelings, treat with harshness”), from Proto-Turkic *üŕ- (“to break, tear, demolish”).^[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰇𐰕 (üz-, “to break, tear”), Azerbaijani üzmək (“to break”), Bashkir өҙөү (öźöw, “to tear, break”), Khakas ӱзерге (üzerge, “to break off, pick off”), Kyrgyz үзүү (üzüü, “to interrupt, break, disrupt, pluck”), Turkmen üzmek (“to tear off, pluck”), Uzbek uzmoq (“to break, tear, pick”).

üzmek (third-person singular simple present üzer)

1. (transitive) to distress, upset, worry; to sadden
   • 1969, “Bu Son Olsun”, in Bu Son Olsun/Felek Beni, performed by Cem Karaca:

     Ne yalnızlık ne de yalan üzmesin seni / Doğarken ağladı insan bu son olsun bu son

     Let neither sadness nor lies sadden you / Humanity cried when it was born, let this be the last, the last

2. (transitive) to abrade
3. (transitive, dialectal) to break, tear

• (?) üzüm

• kırmak
• koparmak