قیصمق
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *kïs- (“to squeeze”).
Verb
[edit]قیصمق • (kısmak)
- to catch, pinch
- to fold, crease
- to reduce
- to lower one's voice
- to be stingy with money, to spend less on
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kısmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2637
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیصمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1508
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “قیصمق”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 703a
- Baskakov, N. A. (1991) İsmail Kaynak, A. Mecit Doğru, transl., Gagauz Türkçesinin Sözlüğü [The Dictionary of Gagauz Turkish] (in Turkish), Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, page 148