آزمق

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āŕ- (“to go astray”).

Cognates

cognate with Old Turkic 𐰀𐰕 (az /⁠āz-⁠/), Bashkir аҙыу (aźıw), Chuvash урма (urma), Karakhanid اازْماقْ (āzmāq), Southern Altai азар (azar) and Turkmen azmak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ(ː)zˈmɑq/
• Hyphenation: آز‧مق

Verb

آزمق • (azmaq or āzmaq) (third-person singular aorist آزر (azar or āzar))(intransitive)

1. to stray, wander, err, to lose the way, to deviate from a course

   Synonym: یازمق (yazmaq)

2. to go astray, stray, err, to deviate from the path of duty or rectitude

   Synonym: یازمق (yazmaq)

   آزب خلق ― azub ḫelq ― a deviant nation

3. to go mad, to become furious and unmanageable, dangerous, or ferocious

   باشی آزدی ― başı azdı ― his boils got worse

4. (of water) to overflow, to flow over the brim or edge of a container

   Synonym: طاشمق (daşmaq)

5. (especially pathology) to overgrow, to grow enormously and anomalously, to become monstrous and gigantic
   1. to assume alarming proportions, to become very serious and threatening
6. to sour; to become sour
7. to separate, to disconnect, to get far

Derived terms

• آزدرجی (azdurıcı, “someone who tempts”)
• آزدرمق (azdurmaq, “to tempt”)
• آزشمق (azışmaq, “to lose each other”)
• آزغورمق (azġurmaq, “to trick”)
• آزغون (azġun, “deviant”)
• آزلو (azılu, “infamous”)
• آزمش (azmış, “someone who is lost; deviant”)
• آزنمق (azınmaq, “to disapear”)

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: azmaq
• Gagauz: azmaa
• Ottoman Turkish: آزمق (azmaq)
  • Turkish: azmak
  • → Armenian: ազմիշ (azmiš)
  • → Macedonian: аздисува (azdisuva)

Noun

آزمق • (azmaq) (definite accusative آزمغی (azmaġı), plural آزمقلر (azmaqlar))

1. a place on the coast where sea or lake water is drained into pools and then dried to extract salt
   1. one of these pools
2. swamp, swampland; a piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground

   Synonyms: بتاق (bataq), باتلق (batlıq), بتاقلو (bataqlu), بلچق (balçıq), دودن (düden)

Descendants

• Ottoman Turkish: آزماق (azmak)
  • Turkish: azmak
  • → Albanian: hasmak
  • → Bulgarian: азма́к (azmák)

Further reading

• Kanar, Mehmet (2018), Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları, page 79
• “azmak”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎^[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977
• “az-”, in Köken Bilgisi Sözlüğü‎^[2], Türk Dil Kurumu, 2011–

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āŕ- (“to go astray”).

Cognates

cognate with Old Turkic 𐰀𐰕 (az /⁠āz-⁠/), Azerbaijani azmaq, Bashkir аҙыу (aźıw), Chuvash урма (urma), Karakhanid اازْماقْ (āzmāq), Southern Altai азар (azar) and Turkmen azmak.

Verb

آزمق • (azmak) (third-person singular aorist آزار (azar))(intransitive)

1. to stray, wander, err, to lose the way, to deviate from a course
2. to go astray, stray, err, to deviate from the path of duty or rectitude

   Synonym: ییتمك (yitmek)

3. to go mad, to become furious and unmanageable, dangerous, or ferocious
4. (of water) to overflow, to flow over the brim or edge of a container

   Synonym: طاشمق (taşmak)

5. to overgrow, to grow enormously and anomalously, to become monstrous and gigantic
   1. to assume alarming proportions, to become very serious and threatening

Derived terms

• آزشمق (azışmak, “to mutually grow exasperated”)
• آزغین (azgın, “stray, astray”)
• آزماق (azmak, “artificial or temporary stream of water”)
• آزمان (azman, “overgrown, gigantic”)
• آزمش (azmış, “someone who errs; deviant”)
• آزمه (azma, “monstrosity”)
• دوش آزمق (düş azmak, “to have a wet dream”)

Descendants

• Turkish: azmak
• → Armenian: ազմիշ (azmiš)
• → Macedonian: аздисува (azdisuva)

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “آزمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 44
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “azmak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 406
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “آزمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[3], Vienna: F. Beck, page 26b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “آزمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[4] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 17
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Errare”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[5], Vienna, column 478
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “آزمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[6], Vienna, columns 165-166
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “az-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “آزمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[7], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 81
• “azmak”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎^[8] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977
• “az-”, in Köken Bilgisi Sözlüğü‎^[9], Türk Dil Kurumu, 2011–