çizmek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish چزمك (çizmek, to draw, sketch), from Proto-Turkic *čiŕ- (to draw).[1]

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (çız-, to draw), Azerbaijani cızmaq, Bashkir һыҙыу (hıźıw, to draw), Chuvash чӗрме (čĕrme, to tear, scratch, draw), Kyrgyz сызуу (sızuu, to draw), Turkmen çyzmak (to draw, sketch, design), Uyghur سىزماق (sizmaq, to draw), Uzbek chizmoq (to draw, paint).

Also compare Mongolian чирэх (čirex, to drag, pull, draw). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Verb

çizmek (third-person singular simple present çizer)

  1. (transitive) to draw (a line)
  2. (transitive) to draw, sketch
  3. (transitive) to scratch, scarify
  4. (transitive) to cross out, strike out, scratch out, cancel

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čiŕ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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