آزمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āŕ- (“to go astray”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰀𐰕 (az /⁠āz-⁠/), Azerbaijani azmaq, Bashkir аҙыу (aźıw), Chuvash урма (urma), Karakhanid اازْماقْ (āzmāq), Southern Altai азар (azar) and Turkmen azmak.

Verb

آزمق • (azmak)

  1. (intransitive) to stray, wander, err, to lose the way, to deviate from a course
  2. (intransitive) to go astray, stray, err, to deviate from the path of duty or rectitude
  3. (intransitive) to go mad, to become furious and unmanageable, dangerous, or ferocious
  4. (intransitive, of water) to overflow, to flow over the brim or edge of a container
    Synonym: طاشمق (taşmak)
  5. (intransitive) to overgrow, to grow enormously and anomalously, to become monstrous and gigantic
  6. (intransitive, for anything) to assume alarming proportions, to become very serious and threatening

Derived terms
  • آزشمق (azışmak, “to mutually grow exasperated”)
  • آزغین (azgın, “stray, astray”)
  • آزمان (azman, “overgrown, gigantic”)
  • آزمش (azmış, “who has done an outrageous action”)
  • آزمه (azma, “monstrosity”)
  • دوش آزمق (duş azmak, “to have a wet dream”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: azmak
  • → Macedonian: аздисува (azdisuva)

Further reading
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