sarsmak

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صارسمق, صارصمق (sarsmak, to shake with a shock, to joggle), from Proto-Turkic . Cognate to Karakhanid (sarsıtmāk, to ill-use, treat harshly), (sarsıɣlı, violent), Old Uyghur (sarsıɣ, harsh), Azerbaijani sarsımaq (to be shaken, shocked), Chagatai (sarsamaq, to be shaken, quiver), Turkmen sarsmak (to shudder, quiver). Clauson thinks there is no obvious semantic connection to modern Turkish, Azeri and Turkmen forms.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

sarsmak (third-person singular simple present sarsar)

  1. (transitive) to shake, convulse, jar, jolt
  2. (transitive) to shock
  3. (transitive) to affect, weaken, upset, afflict

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References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “sarsı:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 854

Further reading

  • sarsmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu