çarpışmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish چارپشمق, equivalent to çarp- +‎ -ış (reciprocal suffix) +‎ -mak (infinitive suffix).

Verb

çarpışmak (third-person singular simple present çarpışır)

  1. reciprocal of çarpmak
  2. to collide
    • 1936 April 30, headline in Ulusal Birlik page 4:
      Manş denizinde iki vapur çarpıştı
      Two ships collided in the English Channel
  3. to fight

References
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چارپشمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 458
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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