آلمق

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ạl- (“to take”).

Verb

آلمق • (almaq)

1. (transitive) to take
2. (transitive) to take away
   • 14th Century, anonymous author, Dresden manuscript: Kitāb-ı Dedem Ḳorḳud Alā Lisān-ı Tāife-i Oġuzān:

     قورقوت اتا ایتّدی آخر زمانده جانلق كرو قاییه دكه كمسنه اللّرندن المیه •

     qorqut ata äyitdi āḫir zämānda ḫānlıq gerü qayıya dägä kimäsnä ällärindän almaya.

     Father Qorqut said; during the end times may dominion reach back to the Qayı, may no one take it away from them.

3. (transitive) to receive; to accept
4. (ditransitive) to buy, to purchase
5. (transitive) to capture, to conquer

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: almaq
• Gagauz: almaa
• Ottoman Turkish: آلمق (almak)
  • Turkish: almak

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “almak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• “almak”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎^[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آلمق (almaq), from Proto-Turkic *ạl- (“to take”).

Verb

آلمق • (almak)

1. to take; to get
2. to receive, to accept
3. to buy
4. to capture, to conquer

Derived terms

• آلینمق (alınmak)

Descendants

• Turkish: almak

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “almak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آلمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 189