See also: aşmak

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish آصمق (asmak, to hang up, suspend), from Proto-Turkic *as- (to hang).[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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asmak (third-person singular simple present asar)

  1. (transitive) to hang, to suspend, to hang up, to append
  2. (transitive) to drape, to drape over, to sling
  3. (transitive) to string up, to truss
  4. (transitive) to hook
  5. (transitive) to hang, to execute
  6. to act despotically; to play the tyrant
  7. to play hooky, to skip class
  8. to neglect

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*as-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill