Verb
شیشمك • (şişmek) (intransitive)
- to swell, puff out, puff up, bloat, inflate
- Synonym: قبارمق (kabarmak)
- to surge, well up, to be about to overflow
- Synonyms: جوشمق (coşmak), قبارمق (kabarmak)
- 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”)
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