یارمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yār- (“to cleave, split”); cognate with Azerbaijani yarmaq, Bashkir ярыу (yarıw), Chuvash ҫур (śur), Kazakh жару (jaru), Kyrgyz жаруу (jaruu), Turkmen ýarmak, Uyghur يارماق (yarmaq) and Uzbek yormoq.

Verb

یارمق • (yarmak)

1. (transitive) to cleave, split, rend, sever, to cut asunder with a sharp instrument

Derived terms

• باش یارمق (baş yarmak, “to worry with reproach or refusal”)
• قیلی قرق یارمق (kılı kırk yarmak, “to split hairs”)
• یاراق (yarak, “weapon”)
• یاران (yaran, “that splits, rends”)
• یارش (yarış, “a manner of cleaving”)
• یارغی (yarğı, “splitting, split”)
• یارق (yarık, “cracked, fissured”)
• یارلمق (yarılmak, “to be cracked, cleft”)
• یارم (yarım, “single act of cleaving”)
• یارمه (yarma, “single act of cleaving”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yarmak
• → Armenian: եառմիշ (eaṙmiš), եարմիշ (earmiš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yarmak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5230
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یارمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 500a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یارمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1337
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Findere”, 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 579
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یارمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5539
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yar-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یارمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2183