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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish یرتمق (yırtmaḳ, “to tear, to rend, to slit”), causative of Ottoman Turkish یرمق (yırmaḳ, “to tear”), from Proto-Turkic *yīr- or *yï̄r- (“to split lengthwise, to break, to tear”). Causative form replaced the original verb, see dialectal yırmak.
Cognate with Karakhanid (yırt-, “to tear”), Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar yırtmaq (“to tear”), Kyrgyz жыртуу (jırtuu, “to tear”), Turkmen ýyrtmak (“to tear”), Tuvan чирер (çirer, “to break away, jag”), Uzbek yirtmoq (“to tear”), Yakut сиир (siir, “to tear”).
Compare also Mongolian жиргэх (jirgeh, “to chop, hack, split”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jɯɾtˈmak/
- Hyphenation: yırt‧mak
Verb
yırtmak (third-person singular simple present yırtar)
- (transitive) To split foldable, bendable materials like paper, fabric etc.; to tear, to rend, to rip.
- (transitive) To have one's skin cut deep enough to draw blood; to tear, to lacerate, to gash.
- (transitive) To break in a riding animal by slightly tearing its haunches with spurs.
- (figuratively) To force, to strain a body part to its excess.
- (figuratively) ellipsis of kefeni yırtmak; to get away from a task, a responsibility or a punishment; to have a narrow escape, to cheat death.
- Synonyms: yakayı kurtarmak, kurtulmak
- (figuratively) To land on one's feet, to hit the jackpot.
- Synonym: köşeyi dönmek
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.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یرتمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2201
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jīr- / *jɨ̄r-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yırt-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- “yırtmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu