قازمه

Ottoman Turkish

قازمه

Etymology

From قازـ (kaz-, “to dig, grave”) +‎ ـمه (-ma).

Noun

قازمه • (kazma) (definite accusative قازمه‌یی (kazmayı), plural قازمه‌لر (kazmalar))

1. verbal noun of قازمق (kazmak):
   1. digging, excavation, trenching, effossion, the act performed by a person or thing that digs

      Synonyms: احتفار (ihtifâr), تجویف (tecvif)

   2. pickaxe, pick, any heavy iron tool with a pointed end used to break soil, stones, or rocks

      Synonyms: صاقور (sakur), فاس (fas), كلنك (külünk)

Adjective

قازمه • (kazma)

1. dug, delves, trenched, excavated, whose material has been removed by hands, claws, or equipment

   Synonyms: اشمه (eşme), اویمه (oyma)

Derived terms

• باغحی قازمه‌سی (bağcı kazması, “trencher's pickaxe”)
• بالطه‌لو قازمه (baltalı kazma, “pick and hatchet in one”)
• قازمه كورك (kazma kürek, “the gravedigger's tool”)
• قازمه‌جی (kazmacı, “sapper”)
• كولنك قازمه (külünk kazma, “mattock with two broad points”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kazma
• → Adyghe: къазмэ (qazmɛ)
• → Albanian: kazmë
• → Arabic: قَزَم (qazam, “dwarf”)
• → Armenian: խազմա (xazma)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: qazme (“pick (digging tool)”)

  → Central Kurdish: قازمە (qazme, “pick (digging tool)”)

• → North Levantine Arabic: قَزْمَة (ʔazmi)
• → North Mesopotamian Arabic: قَزْمَة (qazma)
• → Egyptian Arabic: قَزْمَة (gazma)
• → Romanian: cazma
• → South Levantine Arabic: قَزْمَة (gazma)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قازمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 457
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kazma”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2511
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قازمه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 350b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قازمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 927
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ligo”, 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 952
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قازمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3582
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kazma”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قازمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1414