çarpışmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish چارپشمق, equivalent to çarp- +‎ -ış (reciprocal suffix) +‎ -mak (infinitive suffix).

Verb

çarpışmak (third-person singular simple present çarpışır)

1. reciprocal of çarpmak
2. to collide
   • 1936 April 30, headline in Ulusal Birlik page 4:

     Manş denizinde iki vapur çarpıştı

     Two ships collided in the English Channel

3. to fight

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چارپشمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 458
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN