Turkish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بورمق (burmaḳ, to twist or screw, to wring, to strangle, to castrate, for the bowels to gripe),[1][2] from Proto-Turkic *bür- or *bur- (to twist, to wring). Possibly evolved from the form Proto-Turkic *bügür-, which was derived from Proto-Turkic *bük- (intransitive; to be squeezed, to be strangled).[3]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /buɾˈmak/
  • Hyphenation: bur‧mak

Verb edit

burmak (third-person singular simple present burar)

  1. (transitive) To twist something, to hold something from both ends and turn it in opposite directions; to wring, to pirl, to screw.
    Synonyms: bükmek, kıvırmak
  2. (transitive) To castrate.
    Synonyms: kısırlaştırmak, hadım etmek, (dated) iğdiş etmek
  3. (transitive) To give the mouth an acrid or bitter taste, or a puckering or drying sensation, such as after eating an unripe persimmon or a quince.
  4. (intransitive) (of stomach, of bowels) To hurt, to twinge, to gripe.
  5. (transitive) To hurt, to injure.

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References edit

  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بورمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 395
  2. ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بورمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 284
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bur-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading edit

  • burmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu