pusmak

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پوصمق (pusmak, to crouch and hide, to lie in wait), from Proto-Turkic *bus- (to hide, lay an ambush).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic (bus-, to ambush), Azerbaijani pusmaq (to spy), Bashkir боҫоу (bośow, to hide, lurk), Turkmen busmak (to hide), Uzbek pismoq.

Verb

pusmak (third-person singular simple present pusar)

  1. (intransitive) to crouch down; to hide behind something

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References

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