بوكمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bük- (“to bow, curve, bend”); cognate with Azerbaijani bükmək.

Verb

بوكمك • (bükmek) (third-person singular aorist بوكر (büker))

1. (transitive) to bend, crook, curve, contort, curl, to cause something to change its shape into a curve

   Synonyms: اكمك (eğmek), قیورمق (kıvırmak)

2. (transitive) to fold, crease, pleat, to bend any thin material over so that it comes in contact with itself

   Synonyms: قاتلامق (katlamak), قیرمق (kırmak)

3. (transitive) to twist, wring, screw, to turn the ends of something in opposite directions, often using force

   Synonym: بورمق (burmak)

4. (transitive) to spin, to create yarn or thread by twisting fibers together, traditionally by hand spinning

   Synonym: اكیرمك (eğirmek)

Derived terms

• بل بوكمك (bel bükmek, “to overcome”, literally “to bend the waist”)
• بوكدرمك (bükdürmek, “to make or let be twisted”)
• بوكش (büküş, “a mode of bending or twisting”)
• بوكلمك (bükülmek, “to become bent”)
• بوكلوم (büklüm, “twist, curl”)
• بوكمه (bükme, “bent, crooked, contorted”)
• بوكن (büken, “that bends, twist, or contorts”)
• بوكندی (bükündü, “bend, fold, twist”)
• بوكنمك (bükünmek, “to bend, fold, curl”)
• بوكوم (büküm, “twist, curl, torsion”)
• بوكیجی (bükücü, “one that abitually bends or twists”)
• بویون بوكمك (boyun bükmek, “to submit”, literally “to bend the neck”)
• خلاط بوكمك (halat bükmek, “to twist a rope”)
• صانجی بوكمك (sancı bükmek, “to writhe in pain”)
• طوداق بوكمك (dudak bükmek, “to complain”, literally “to bend the lip”)
• قول بوكمك (kol bükmek, “to break the power of an enemy”, literally “to bend the arm”)

Descendants

• Turkish: bükmek

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “بوكمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 340
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bükmek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 720
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بوكمك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 134a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوكمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 291
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Torquere”, 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 1680
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوكمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 936
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bük-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوكمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 406