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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *as- (“to hang”); cognate with Azerbaijani asmaq, Bashkir аҫыу (aśıw), Chuvash усма (usma), Kazakh асу (asu), Kyrgyz асуу (asuu), Tatar асу (asu), Turkmen asmak, Uyghur ئاسماق (asmaq) and Uzbek osmoq.
Verb
آصمق • (asmak)
- (transitive) to hang, hang up, suspend, append, to cause something to be suspended
Derived terms
- آصقی آصمق (askı asmak, “to hang out festive decorations”)
- آصلمق (asılmak, “to be hung”)
- آصمه (asma, “vine, grapevine”)
- قولاق آصمق (kulak asmak, “to listen, to give ear”)
Descendants
Adjective
آصمق • (asmak)
- sly, crafty, cunning, wily, skillful at deceiving others
- Synonym: قورناز (kurnaz)
- insidious, tricky, producing harm in a stealthy, gradual manner
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “asmak2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 321
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آصمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 44b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آصمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 21
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Suspendere”, 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, Vienna, column 1638
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آصمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 260
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “as-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آصمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 131