sarkmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صارقمق (sarkmak, to hang loosely, lean down), from Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Cognate to Khorezmian Turkic [script needed] (sark-, to hang limply), Kipchak [Arabic needed] (sark-, to hang down).[1]

Verb

sarkmak (third-person singular simple present sarkar)

  1. (intransitive) to sag, hang; to hang down; to hang out; to lean out of
  2. (intransitive) to sink, lean down
  3. (intransitive, with dative case) to flirt with, hit on someone, to molest
  4. (intransitive, with dative case) to be postponed to

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • (to hang): salınmak
  • (to flirt with, molest): asılmak
  • (to be posponed to): kalmak

Derived terms

  • sarkıt
  • sarkaç
  • sarkabilmek
  • sarkamamak
  • sarkıcı
  • sarkık
  • sarkılmak
  • sarkınmak
  • sarkıntı
  • sarkıtmak
  • sarkış
  • sarkışmak
  • sarkma
  • sarkmamak
  • sarkmış

References

  1. Clauson, Gerard (1972), “sark-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 847
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