صاچمه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From صاچـ (saç-, “to scatter, sprinkle”) +‎ ـمه (-ma).

Noun

صاچمه • (saçma) (definite accusative صاچمه‌یی (saçmayı), plural صاچمه‌لر (saçmalar))

1. verbal noun of صاچمق (saçmak):
   1. scattering, sprinkling, strewing, dispersion, dispersal, the act or result of dispersing

      Synonym: نثار (nisâr)

   2. scattering, a small quantity of something beeing dispersed or sprinkled at random points

      Synonyms: سرپندی (serpindi), صاچندی (saçındı)

   3. nonsense, baloney, gibberish, hogwash, balderdash, unintelligible speech or writing

      Synonym: صاچمه صاپان (saçma sapan)

   4. cast net, a weighted fishing net that is thrown and then pulled back via an attached line

      Synonym: صاچمه آغ (saçma ağ)

   5. buckshot, lead shot or projectiles used in shotgun cartridges suitable for hunting larger game

Adjective

صاچمه • (saçma)

1. thrown scatteringly so as to spread out and cover a wide area of space, like a net

Derived terms

• صاچمه آغ (saçma ağ, “cast net”)
• صاچمه ایتمك (saçma etmek, “to joke”)
• صاچمه صاپان (saçma sapan, “nonsense, baloney”)
• صاچمه‌لامق (saçmalamak, “to talk nonsense”)

Descendants

• Turkish: saçma
• → Albanian: saçme
• → Armenian: սաչմա (sačʻma)
• → Aromanian: sãčmã
• → Bulgarian: сачма́ (sačmá), съчма́ (sǎčmá)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: saçme

  → Central Kurdish: ساچمە (saçme)

  → Southern Kurdish: ساچمە (saçme)

• → Macedonian: сачма (sačma)
• → Persian: ساچمه (sâčme)
  • → Pashto: ساچمه
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: са̀чма
  • Latin script: sàčma

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “صاچمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 175
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “saçma1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4002
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صاچمه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 294a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صاچمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 745
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صاچمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2909
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “săčmă”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[4], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 170
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صاچمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1152