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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bus- (“to hide, lay an ambush”); cognate with Old Turkic (bus-, “to ambush”), Azerbaijani pusmaq (“to spy”), Bashkir боҫоу (bośow, “to hide, lurk”), Turkmen busmak (“to hide”) and Uzbek pismoq.
Verb
پوصمق • (pusmak)
- (intransitive) to crouch, bend down, stoop low, to stand close to the ground
- (intransitive) to lie in wait, to be hiding, waiting to ambush or attack someone
- (intransitive) to cringe, cower, shrink, recoil or flinch, usually in fear
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pusmak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3909
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پوصمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 327
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pus-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پوصمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 459