ییقمق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یقمق (yıkmak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yïk- (“to crush”); cognate with Azerbaijani yıxmaq, Crimean Tatar yıqmaq and Khalaj yıqmaq.

Verb

ییقمق • (yıkmak)

1. (transitive) to demolish, knock down, pull down, to destroy a building

   Synonym: بوزمق (bozmak)

2. (transitive) to destroy, ruin, to damage something beyond use or repair

   Synonym: بوزمق (bozmak)

3. (transitive) to unload, to take the load off an animal or vehicle
4. (transitive, figuratively) to hurt somebody's feelings, to cause emotional pain

   Synonyms: داغلامق (dağlamak), قیرمق (kırmak)

Derived terms

• ییقغین (yıkgın, “in ruins”)
• ییقق (yıkık, “demolished; ruinous”)
• ییقلش (yıkıliş, “a manner of falling down”)
• ییقلمق (yıkılmak, “to be demolished”)
• ییقم (yıkım, “single act of demolition”)
• ییقندی (yıkındı, “debris”)
• ییقنمق (yıkınmak, “to throw one's self down”)
• ییویجی (yıkıcı, “that abitually demolishes”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yıkmak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yıkmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5317
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یقمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 508a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ییقمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1370
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Demoliri”, 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 348
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یقمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5585
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yık-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییقمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2223