یایمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yād- (“to spread”); cognate with Azerbaijani yaymaq, Bashkir йәйеү (yəyew), Kazakh жаю (jaü), Kyrgyz жаюу (jayuu), Southern Altai јайар (ǰayar), Turkmen ýāýmak, Uzbek yoymoq and Yakut дьай (jay).

Verb

یایمق • (yaymak) (third-person singular aorist یایار (yayar))

1. (transitive) to spread, to stretch out or open out something so that it more fully covers a given area of space

   Synonyms: دوشه‌مك (döşemek), سرمك (sermek)

2. (transitive) to give off, put out, send out, emit, to produce and send forth, to come across in some manner

   Synonym: صاچمق (saçmak)

3. (transitive) to propagate, disseminate, circulate, to spread from person to person, or from place to place

   Synonym: نشر ایتمك (neşr etmek)

4. (transitive) to churn, to agitate or stir cream or whole milk rapidly and repetitively in order to make butter

Derived terms

• یایغی (yaygı, “any cloth spread out”)
• یایلمق (yayılmak, “to be spread out”)
• یایمه (yayma, “act of spreading”)
• یایوان (yayvan, “broad, spreading out”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yaymak

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “یایمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 875
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yaymak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5260
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یایمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 504a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یایمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1347
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Expandere”, 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 512
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یایمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5557
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yay-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یایمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2197