چیزمك

Old Anatolian Turkish

Alternative forms

• (early, Azerbaijan) چِیزْمَقْ (çızmaq)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čïŕ- (“to scratch”).

Verb

چِیزْمَكْ (çizmäk)

1. (transitive) to scratch
2. (transitive) to draw by scratching a surface
3. (transitive, by extension) to draw, to paint, to make a picture

Descendants

• Gagauz: çizmää
• Ottoman Turkish: چیزمك (çizmek), چزمك (çizmek)
  • Turkish: çizmek

Further reading

• Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) “čïz-”, in A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 116

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• چزمك (çizmek)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish چِیزْمَكْ (çizmäk), from Proto-Turkic *čïŕ- (“to scratch, draw”). Cognate with Azerbaijani cızmaq, Bashkir һыҙыу (hıźıw), Chuvash чӗрме (čĕrme), Kyrgyz сызуу (sızuu), Turkmen çyzmak, Uyghur سىزماق (sizmaq) and Uzbek chizmoq.

Verb

چیزمك • (çizmek) (third-person singular aorist چیزر (çizer))

1. (transitive) to line, to draw or make lines on, to mark with lines (e.g. a piece of paper)

   Synonym: چیزیك چیزمك (çizik çizmek)

2. (transitive) to scratch, to mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch

   Synonym: قازیمق (kazımak)

3. (transitive) to sketch, mark, trace, delineate, to make a basic drawing, lightly or with care

   Synonyms: چكمك (çekmek), رسم ایتمك (resm etmek)

4. (transitive) to cross out, mark off, check off, to erase or cancel by a line drawn through

Derived terms

• جام چیزمك (cam çizmek, “to line the glass”)
• چیزدیرمك (çizdirmek, “to make or let be sketched”)
• چیزكی (çizgi, “line, mark; scratch”)
• چیزلمك (çizilmek, “to be scratched or drawed”)
• چیزم (çizim, “a single act of drawing”)
• چیزمه (çizme, “boot”)
• چیزنمك (çizinmek, “to flit, flutter”)
• چیزیك (çizik, “line, mark; scratch”)
• چیزیك چیزمك (çizik çizmek, “to draw a line”)
• یازوب چیزمك (yazub çizmek, “to write and cancel”)
• یان چیزمك (yan çizmek, “to go away stealthily”)

Descendants

• Turkish: çizmek

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چیزمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 621
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çizmek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1019
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چزمك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 183a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چیزمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 485
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Delineare”, 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 344
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چزمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1612
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çiz-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چیزمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 744