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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish چارپشمق, equivalent to çarp- + -ış (reciprocal suffix) + -mak (infinitive suffix).
Verb
çarpışmak (third-person singular simple present çarpışır)
- reciprocal of çarpmak
- to collide
- 1936 April 30, headline in Ulusal Birlik page 4:
Manş denizinde iki vapur çarpıştı- Two ships collided in the English Channel
- to fight
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چارپشمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 458
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN