savmak

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صاومق,[1] from Proto-Turkic *sab- (to stop, finish, to be stopped).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sav.ˈmak/,
  • Hyphenation: sav‧mak

Verb

savmak (third-person singular simple present savar)

  1. to fend off, to strike away
    uçaksavaranti-aircraft artillery
  2. to get rid (of someone or something)

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صاومق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1164
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sab-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill