پوصمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bus- (“to hide, lay an ambush”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (bus-, “to ambush”), Azerbaijani pusmaq (“to spy”), Bashkir боҫоу (bośow, “to hide, lurk”), Turkmen busmak (“to hide”) and Uzbek pismoq.

Verb

پوصمق • (pusmak)

1. (intransitive) to crouch, bend down, stoop low, to stand close to the ground
2. (intransitive) to lie in wait, to be hiding, waiting to ambush or attack someone
3. (intransitive) to cringe, cower, shrink, recoil or flinch, usually in fear

Related terms

• پوصو (pusu, “ambush”)

Descendants

• Turkish: pusmak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pusmak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3909
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پوصمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 327
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pus-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پوصمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 459