sarsmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صارسمق (sarsmak, to shake with a shock, to joggle), [script needed] (sarsamak), from Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Cognate to Karakhanid [script needed] (sarsıtmāk, to ill-use, treat harshly), [script needed] (sarsıɣlı, violent), Old Uyghur [script needed] (sarsıɣ, harsh), Azerbaijani sarsımaq (to be shaken, shocked), Chagatai [script needed] (sarsamaq, to be shaken, quiver), Turkmen sarsmak (to shudder, quiver). Clauson thinks there is no obvious semantic connection to modern Turkish, Azeri and Turkmen forms.[1]

Verb

sarsmak (third-person singular simple present sarsar)

  1. (transitive) to shake, convulse, jar, jolt
  2. (transitive) to shock
  3. (transitive) to affect, weaken, upset, afflict

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • sarsabilmek
  • sarsak
  • sarsamamak
  • sarsıcı
  • sarsılmak
  • sarsıntı
  • sarsıtmak
  • sarsış
  • sarsma
  • sarsmamak
  • sarstırmak

References

  1. Clauson, Gerard (1972), “sarsı:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 854
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