يوذماق

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *yōd- (“to destroy”). Related to يُوقْ (yōq, “there isn't”).

Cognate with Turkmen ýoýmak, Kazakh жойу (joiu) and Tuvan чодар (çodar).

Verb

يُوذْماقْ (yōδmāq) (third-person singular aorist يُوذارْ (yōδār))

1. (transitive) to wipe, erase

   اُلْ تُبْراقْ يُوزِنْدِنْ يُوذْتٖى ― Ol toprāq yǖzindin yōδtï̄. ― He wiped the dust off his face.

2. (transitive) destroy, obliterate, ruin

   اُلْ بِتِكْ يُوذْتٖى ― Ol bitig yōδtï̄. ― He obliterated the writing.

Derived terms

• يُذْلُشْماقْ (yoδlušmāq, “to be obliterated”)
• يُذْساماقْ (yoδsāmāq, “to wish to obliterate”)
• يُتّرْماقْ (yotturmāq, “to make obliterate”)
• يُذُغْ (yoδuğ, “a word used when someone is caught for someone else's crime”)
• يُذُلْماقْ (yoδulmāq, “to be wiped, erased”)
• يُذُشْماقْ (yoδušmāq, “to help wipe, remove, obliterate”)
• يُذُتْ (yoδut, “destructive, damaging”)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yo:ḏ-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 885

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 434