باصامق

• باصاماق (basamak), بصامق (basamak), بصمق (basamak)

Ultimately from a development of Proto-Turkic *bas- (“to press”), the same root of باصمق (basmak). Compare Bashkir баҫҡыс (baśqıs), Kazakh басқыш (basqyş), Khakas пасхыс (pasxıs), Kyrgyz баскыч (baskıc), Tatar баскыч (baskıç) and Uzbek bosqich.

باصامق • (basamak)

1. step, a rest for the foot in ascending or descending a stair or a ladder

   Synonyms: پایه (paye), درجه (derece), مرتبه (mertebe)

2. tread, the walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed
3. rung, round, a single, wooden crosspiece forming a step of a ladder

   Synonyms: پایه (paye), درجه (derece)

4. (figuratively) step, stage, phase, a distinct part of a process

   Synonym: مرتبه (mertebe)

• Turkish: basamak
• → Albanian: basamak
• → Armenian: պասամախ (pasamax), բասամաղ (basamaġ)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Latin script: bȁsamak
  • Cyrillic script: басамак

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• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باصامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 326