بوزمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *buŕ- / *boŕ- (“to damage, destroy”);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani pozmaq, Bashkir боҙоу (boźow), Chuvash пӑс (păs), Kazakh бұзу (būzu), Kyrgyz бузуу (buzuu) and Uzbek buzmoq.

Verb

بوزمق • (bozmak)

  1. (transitive) to demolish, knock down, pull down, to destroy a building
    Synonym: ییقمق (yıkmak)
  2. (transitive) to destroy, ruin, to damage something beyond use or repair
    Synonym: ییقمق (yıkmak)
  3. (transitive) to corrupt, deprave, pervert, to change from good to bad
  4. (transitive) to vitiate, spoil, to reduce the value or quality of something
  5. (transitive) to disturb, to confuse a constant state or a continuous flow
  6. (transitive) to nullify, cancel, invalidate, to make something legally invalid
    Synonym: ابطال ایتمك (ibtal etmek)
  7. (transitive) to abolish, abrogate, to end a law, institution, custom or practice
  8. (transitive) to taint, to contaminate or corrupt either physically or morally
  9. (transitive) to obliterate, deface, to damage or vandalize something, like a surface
  10. (transitive) to adulterate, to spoil something by adding impurities or other substances

Derived terms
  • آبدست بوزمق (abdest bozmak, “to ease nature”)
  • آقچه بوزمق (akça bozmak, “to give small change for money”)
  • اوروج بوزمق (oruc bozmak, “to break the fast”)
  • بوزان (bozan, “who or which spoils”)
  • بوزدرمق (bozdurmak, “to make or let be spoilt”)
  • بوزش (bozuş, “mode or degree of spoiling”)
  • بوزشمق (bozuşmak, “to quarrel”)
  • بوزغون (bozgun, “deranged; spoilt”)
  • بوزلمق (bozulmak, “to become spoilt”)
  • بوزم (bozum, “act of breaking up”)
  • بوزمه (bozma, “pervert, proselyte”)
  • بوزنتی (bozuntu, “old materials, scraps”)
  • بوزوق (bozuk, “spoilt; corrupted”)
  • بوزیجی (bozucu, “one who abitually spoils”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: bozmak
    • → Ladino: bozear

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

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