قازیمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kạŕï- (“to scratch, scrape, curry”), a root which is probably related to Proto-Mongolic *kïsu- (“to scrape”), whence Mongolian хусах (xusax).

Verb

قازیمق • (kazımak) (third-person singular aorist قازیر (kazır))

1. (transitive) to scratch, scrape, to mark a surface with a sharp object, like fingernails, leaving a scratch

   Synonyms: چیزمك (çizmek), طرمالامق (tırmalamak)

2. (transitive) to erase, delete, cancel, rub out, wipe out, to remove or get rid of written or printed material

   Synonym: سیلمك (silmek)

3. (transitive) to shave, to make bald or (the hair) shorter using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers

   Synonym: تراش ایتمك (tıraş etmek)

4. (transitive) to eliminate, eradicate, extirpate, annihilate, to destroy completely, to reduce to nothing

Derived terms

• قازندی (kazındı, “scrapings”)
• قازیتمق (kazıtmak, “to make or let be scraped”)
• قازیلمق (kazılmak, “to be erased by scraping”)
• قازینمق (kazınmak, “to scratch oneself”)
• قازییجی (kazıyıcı, “who abitually scrapes or erases”)

Related terms

• قزاغی (kazağı, “scraper”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kazımak

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قازیمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 458
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kazımak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2509
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قازیمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 350b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قازیمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 927
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Eradere”, 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 475
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قازیمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3583
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kazı-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قازیمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1414