توكورمك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• توكرمك (tükürmek)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tüpkür- (“to spit”); cognate with Azerbaijani tüpürmək, Bashkir төкөрөү (tököröw), Kazakh түкіру (tükıru), Kyrgyz түкүрүү (tükürüü), Turkmen tüýkürmek, Uyghur تۈكۈرمەك (tükürmek) and Uzbek tupurmoq.

Verb

توكورمك • (tükürmek)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to spit, to evacuate saliva or another substance from the mouth

Related terms

• توكوروك (tükürük, “spit, spittle”)

Descendants

• Turkish: tükürmek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tükürmek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4935
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “توكرمك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 171b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “توكورمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 416
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Spuere”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1588
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “توكرمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1476
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tükür-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “توكورمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 613