kasmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قاصمق (kasmak, to stretch, tight, tighten), from Proto-Turkic *K(i)as- (to constrict, tighten).[1]

Verb

kasmak (third-person singular simple present kasar)

  1. (transitive) to stretch, tight, tighten, contract, strain, tauten

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • kasılmak
  • kastırmak
  • kasnak

References

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