boğmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بوغمق (boğmak, to choke, strangle, constrict by binding, overwhelm), from Proto-Turkic *bog- (to tie up, to strangle)

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (boɣ-, to strangle), Azerbaijani boğmaq (to choke, strangle), Bashkir быуыу (bïwïw, to strangle), Chuvash пӑвма (păvma, to choke, strangle), Khakas поғырарға (poğırarğa, to squeeze, strangle), Kyrgyz буу (buu, to squeeze, tie), Turkmen bogmak (to tie, bind, choke), Uzbek bo'g'moq (to choke, strangle), Yakut буой (buoy, to hinder, forbid, prohibit). Compare Mongolian боох (booh, to tie up, bind, hinder, obstruct), possibly a Turkic borrowing.[1]

Verb

boğmak (third-person singular simple present boğar)

  1. (transitive) to choke, strangle, throttle; to suffocate; to drown
  2. (transitive, with dative case) to cover up with, drown (something) in (bluster, a torrent of words)

Conjugation

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • boğma
  • boğuş
  • boğuk
  • boğucu
  • boğmaca
  • boğuntu
  • boğulmak
  • boğuşmak
  • boğdurmak
  • boğmamak
  • boğamamak
  • boğabilmek

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *pŏ́ga”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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