صارمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *saru- (“to wind around”);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani sarımaq, Chuvash сырма (syrma), Karakhanid [script needed] (sarūmāk), Khakas сарирға (sarirğa), Tatar сарырга (sarırga) and Turkmen saramak.

Verb

صارمق • (sarmak)

  1. (transitive) to wrap, wind, to enclose or coil around an object or organism
  2. (transitive) to surround, environ, to encircle something or someone in all directions
  3. (transitive) to gird, girdle, to encircle or constrain with, or as if with a belt
  4. (intransitive, of plants) to climb, trail, to grow upwards by clinging to something

Derived terms
  • آتش صارمق (ateş sarmak, “for flames to surround a thing”)
  • آصمه صارمق (asma sarmak, “for a vine to climb about a thing”)
  • صارغی (sargı, “anything bound or wrapped”)
  • صارق صارمق (sarık sarmak, “to make up a turban”)
  • صارلمق (sarılmak, “to be wrapped around a thing”)
  • صارماشمق (sarmaşmak, “to twine about”)
  • صارمه (sarma, “the act of winding”)
  • صارنمق (sarınmak, “to wrap about one's self”)

Descendants
  • Gagauz: sarmak
  • Turkish: sarmak
  • → Armenian: սարմիշ (sarmiš)

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

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