اولچمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ölč- (“to measure”); cognate with Azerbaijani ölçmək, Bashkir үлсәү (ülsəw), Chuvash виҫ (viś), Kazakh өлшеу (ölşeu), Kyrgyz өлчөө (ölcöö) and Uzbek oʻlchamoq.

Verb

اولچمك • (ölçmek)

1. (transitive) to measure, to ascertain the quantity or size of a unit of material

Derived terms

• اولچدرمك (ölçdürmek, “to make or let be measured”)
• اولچشمك (ölçüşmek, “to measure one's self”)
• اولچك (ölçek, “any measure of capacity”)
• اولچلمك (ölçülmek, “to be measured”)
• اولچم (ölçüm, “quantity represented by any measure”)
• اولچنمك (ölçünmek, “to consider, to ponder”)
• اولچی (ölçü, “measure”)
• یری اولچمك (yeri ölçmek, “to measure land”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: ölçmek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ölçmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3687
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اولچمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 200
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mensurare”, 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 1727
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ölç-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اولچمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 266