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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bur- (“to twist, to wring”); cognate with Azerbaijani burmaq.
Verb
بورمق • (burmak)
- (transitive) to twist, wring, screw, to turn the ends of something in opposite directions
- (transitive) to castrate, to strangulate the neck of the scrotum in order to sterilize
- (intransitive) to gripe, twinge, to cause a pinching and spasmodic pain in the bowels
Derived terms
- بوران (buran, “twisting, that twists”)
- بوردرمق (burdurmak, “to make or let be twisted”)
- بورش (buruş, “pucker, wrinkle”)
- بورغاچ (burgaç, “twist, bend”)
- بورق (buruk, “twisted, pinched”)
- بورقلمق (burkulmak, “to be sprained”)
- بورلمق (burulmak, “to be twisted or screwed”)
- بورم (burum, “single twist or torsion”)
- بورمه (burma, “act of twisting”)
- بورنمق (burunmak, “to pinch and gripe”)
- بورون بورمق (burun burmak, “to tweak a nose”)
- بویون بورمق (boyun burmak, “to wring the neck”)
- طوداق بورمق (dudak burmak, “to make a face as when about to weep”)
- قول بورمق (kol burmak, “to twist one's arm”)
- قولاق بورمق (kulak burmak, “to pull one's ears”)
- بورغو (burgu, “borer, drill”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “burmak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 704
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بورمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 130a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بورمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 284
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Torquere”, 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 1680
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بورمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 915
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bur-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بورمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 395