اوتورمق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• اوترمق (oturmak), اوطرمق (oturmak), اوطورمق (oturmak)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (otur-, “to sit”), from Proto-Turkic *oltur- (“to sit”). Cognate with Azerbaijani oturmaq, Bashkir ултырыу (ultırıw), Kazakh отыру (otyru), Kyrgyz отуруу (oturuu), Turkmen oturmak, Uyghur ئولتۇرماق (olturmaq), Uzbek oʻtirmoq and Yakut олор (olor).

Verb

اوتورمق • (oturmak) (third-person singular aorist اوتورور (oturur))

1. (intransitive) to sit, to be in a resting position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks

   Synonyms: جلوس ایتمك (culus etmek), نشست ایتمك (nişest etmek)

2. (intransitive) to live, dwell, reside, lodge, to settle or have a residence permanently or for a considerable time

   Synonym: اقامت ایتمك (ikâmet etmek)

3. (intransitive, nautical) to strand, run aground, beach, to be immobilized by water too shallow to allow it to float

Derived terms

• آشاغی اوتورمق (aşağı oturmak, “to sit in a lower position”)
• اكری اوتورمق (eğri oturmak, “to sit in an unseemly posture”)
• اوتوراق (oturak, “rest, halt; chamber pot”)
• اوتورتمق (oturtmak, “to seat”)
• اوتوردلمق (oturdulmak, “to be seated”)
• اوتورش (oturuş, “a manner of sitting”)
• اوتورشمق (oturuşmak, “to sit down together in company”)
• اوتورغان (oturgan, “given to sitting or halting”)
• اوتورلمق (oturulmak, “to be suitable for sitting on”)
• اوتورم (oturum, “seat, sitting”)
• اوتورمه (oturma, “sitting”)
• راحت اوتورمق (rahat oturmak, “to sit in a comfortable posture”)
• طوغری اوتورمق (doğrı oturmak, “to sit properly”)
• قان اوتورمق (kan oturmak, “to leave a blood blister”)
• قولوچقه‌یه اوتورمق (koloçkaya oturmak, “to sit on eggs, brood”)
• كول اوزره اوتورمق (kül üzre oturmak, “to be in great poverty or need”)
• یوقاری اوتورمق (yukarı oturmak, “to sit in a higher position”)

Descendants

• Turkish: oturmak

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اوتورمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 137
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “oturmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3650
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوترمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 75a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوتورمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 174
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sedere”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1531
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوترمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 485
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “otur-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوتورمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 237