باصامق
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Ottoman Turkish
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from a development of Proto-Turkic *bas- (“to press”), the same root of باصمق (basmak). Compare Bashkir баҫҡыс (baśqıs), Kazakh басқыш (basqyş), Khakas пасхыс (pasxıs), Kyrgyz баскыч (baskıc), Tatar баскыч (baskıç) and Uzbek bosqich.
Noun
[edit]باصامق • (basamak)
- step, a rest for the foot in ascending or descending a stair or a ladder
- tread, the walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed
- rung, round, a single, wooden crosspiece forming a step of a ladder
- (figuratively) step, stage, phase, a distinct part of a process
- Synonym: مرتبه (mertebe)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: basamak
- → Albanian: basamak
- → Armenian: պասամախ (pasamax), բասամաղ (basamaġ)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “basamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 474
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بصمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 120a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باصامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 240
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gradus”, 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 661
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بصمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 1686
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “basamak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باصامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 326