صیچمق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• سچمق (sıçmak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sïč- (“to defecate”), the same root of صیچان (sıçan, “mouse”); cognate with Bashkir сысыу (sısıw), Chuvash сысма (sysma), Kazakh тышу (tyşu) and Kyrgyz чычуу (cıcuu).

Verb

صیچمق • (sıçmak)

1. (transitive) to defecate, to excrete faeces, to have a stool

Descendants

• Turkish: sıçmak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sıçmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4187
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صیچمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 777
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cacare”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 129
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سچمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2558
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sıç-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صیچمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1198