sapmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صاپمق (ṣapmaḳ, to swerve, deviate, diverge, go astray)[1], from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (sap-, to deviate, lead away from), from Proto-Turkic *sap- (to leave the way, go astray, deviate)[2][3].

Cognate with Azerbaijani sapmaq (to wander away), Chuvash супма (supma, to turn, go astray, lose one's reason), Turkmen sap (dodge, trick).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sapˈmak/
  • Hyphenation: sap‧mak

Verb

sapmak (third-person singular simple present sapar)

  1. (intransitive, with dative) To change direction, to turn to, to swerve to, to veer into.
  2. (intransitive, with ablative) To digress from; to deviate from (one's goal).
  3. (intransitive, figuratively) To deviate from the norm, to abandon the right path.

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890), صاپمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1151
  2. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *sap-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), sark-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

  • sapmak in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
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