آصمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *as- (“to hang”); cognate with Azerbaijani asmaq, Bashkir аҫыу (aśıw), Chuvash усма (usma), Kazakh асу (asu), Kyrgyz асуу (asuu), Tatar асу (asu), Turkmen asmak, Uyghur ئاسماق (asmaq) and Uzbek osmoq.

Verb

آصمق • (asmak)

1. (transitive) to hang, hang up, suspend, append, to cause something to be suspended

Derived terms

• آصقی آصمق (askı asmak, “to hang out festive decorations”)
• آصلمق (asılmak, “to be hung”)
• آصمه (asma, “vine, grapevine”)
• قولاق آصمق (kulak asmak, “to listen, to give ear”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: asmak

Adjective

آصمق • (asmak)

1. sly, crafty, cunning, wily, skillful at deceiving others

   Synonym: قورناز (kurnaz)

2. insidious, tricky, producing harm in a stealthy, gradual manner

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “asmak2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 321
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آصمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 44b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آصمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 21
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Suspendere”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1638
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آصمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 260
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “as-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آصمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 131