aşmak

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آشمق (aşmak, to pass, go beyond, pass the limits), from Old Anatolian Turkish (aş-, to cross, overflow), from Proto-Turkic *(i)āĺ- (to cross (a mountain), to surpass).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -mɑk

Verb

aşmak (third-person singular simple present aşar)

  1. (transitive) to cross, traverse (a mountain, a river, a sea); to go through (a forest); to traverse (a road)
  2. (transitive) to overcome, surmount
  3. (transitive) to overtake, pass
  4. to surpass, exceed, to be more than, to be in excess of
  5. (transitive) to transcend; to pass beyond the limits of something.

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References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*(i)āĺ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill