شیشمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sīĺč- (“to swell, inflate”); cognate with Azerbaijani şişmək, Bashkir шешеү (şeşew), Chuvash шыҫма (šyśma), Kyrgyz шишүү (şişüü), Turkmen çişmek, Tuvan ыжар (ıjar), Uzbek shishmoq and Yakut ис (is).

Verb

شیشمك • (şişmek) (intransitive)

1. to swell, puff out, puff up, bloat, inflate

   Synonym: قبارمق (kabarmak)

2. to surge, well up, to be about to overflow

   Synonyms: جوشمق (coşmak), قبارمق (kabarmak)

3. to become congested, overfilled or overcrowded

Derived terms

• شیشرتمك (şişirtmek, “to make or let be puffed”)
• شیشرلمك (şişirilmek, “to be made to swell”)
• شیشرمك (şişirmek, “to inflate, bloat up”)

Descendants

• Turkish: şişmek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şişmek2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4495
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “شیشمك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 292b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شیشمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 741
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tumere”, 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 1700
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شیشمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2899
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şiş-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شیشمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1147