بوغمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bog- (“to strangle”); cognate with Azerbaijani boğmaq, Bashkir быуыу (bıwıw), Chuvash пӑв (păv), Kazakh буу (buu), Kyrgyz буу (buu), Turkmen bogmak, Uyghur بوغۇلۇش (boghulush) and Uzbek bo'g'moq.

Verb

بوغمق • (boğmak)

1. (transitive) to choke, strangle, suffocate, throttle, to squeeze the throat
2. (transitive) to drown, to kill someone by suffocating in water or other liquid
3. (transitive, figuratively) to overwhelm, overpower, inundate, flood

Derived terms

• بوغان (boğan, “strangling, suffocating”)
• بوغدرمق (boğdurmak, “to make or let be strangled”)
• بوغشمق (boğuşmak, “to fly at each other's throat”)
• بوغلمق (boğulmak, “to be strangled”)
• بوغمه (boğma, “strangulation”)
• بوغنمق (boğunmak, “to choke oneself”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: boğmak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boğmak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 644
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بوغمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 133b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوغمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 289
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Strangulare”, 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 1601
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوغمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 932
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “boğ-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوغمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 404