شاشمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *siāĺ- (“to be astonished, to slander”).

Verb

شاشمق • (şaşmak)

1. to miss one's way, to be surprised, be completely bewildered

Derived terms

• شاشرمق (şaşırmak)
• شاشه قالمق (şaşa kalmak)
• شلشوب قالمق (şaşıp kalmak)

Related terms

• شاشی (şaşı)

Descendants

• Turkish: şaşmak
• → Armenian: շշմել (ššmel), շշմիլ (ššmil) — Western Armenian, շաշմել (šašmel), շաշմիլ (šašmil), շշմլել (ššmlel), շշմվել (ššmvel), շիշմիլ (šišmil), շաշմիշ ըլլալ (šašmiš əllal) — dialectal

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شاشمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1109
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شاشمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 714