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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.
Pronunciation
Verb
sarsmak (third-person singular simple present sarsar)
- (transitive) to shake, convulse, jar, jolt
- (transitive) to shock
- (transitive) to affect, weaken, upset, afflict
Conjugation
1 The suffixes -ken and -cesine may be suffixed to the base form of any of the following tenses: aorist, continuous, inferential (even when it follows another suffix), and future.
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References
Further reading
- “sarsmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu