Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish چزمك (çizmek, to draw, sketch), from Proto-Turkic *čiŕ- (to draw).[1]

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (çız-, to draw), Azerbaijani cızmaq, Bashkir һыҙыу (hıźıw, to draw), Chuvash чӗрме (čĕrme, to tear, scratch, draw), Kyrgyz сызуу (sızuu, to draw), Turkmen çyzmak (to draw, sketch, design), Uyghur سىزماق (sizmaq, to draw), Uzbek chizmoq (to draw, paint).

Also compare Mongolian чирэх (čirex, to drag, pull, draw). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Verb edit

çizmek (third-person singular simple present çizer)

  1. (transitive) to draw (a line)
  2. (transitive) to draw, sketch
  3. (transitive) to scratch, scarify
  4. (transitive) to cross out, strike out, scratch out, cancel

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

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