شاشرمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Causative of شاشمق (şaşmak), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *siāĺ- (“to be astonished, to slander”), equivalent to شاش (şaş) +‎ ـر (-ır).

Verb

شاشرمق • (şaşırmak)

1. (transitive) to confuse
2. (intransitive) to become bewildered
3. (intransitive) to lose one's mind

Derived terms

• آیاق شاشرمق (ayak şaşırmak)
• پوصوله‌یی شاشرمق (pusulayı şaşırmak)
• شاشرتمق (şaşırtmak)
• یولی شاشرمق (yolı şaşırmak)

Related terms

• شاشمق (şaşmak)

Descendants

• Turkish: şaşırmak
• → Armenian: շաշըրմիշ (šašərmiš)

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شاشرمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1108
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شاشرمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 714