اسنمك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• اسنه‌مك (esnemek)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *esne- (“to yawn”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰾𐰤𐰀 (esne-), Azerbaijani əsnəmək, Chuvash анасла (anasla), Kazakh есінеу (esıneu), Tatar иснәү (isnäw), Uyghur ئەسنىمەك (esnimek) and Uzbek esnamoq.

Verb

اسنمك • (esnemek)

1. (intransitive) to yawn, gape, to open the mouth and take a deep breath
2. (intransitive) to stretch, to lengthen when pulled under the influence of force

Related terms

• اسنك (esnek, “elastic”)

Descendants

• Turkish: esnemek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “esnemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1490
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اسنمك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 38a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اسنمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 94
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Oscitare”, 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 1226
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اسنمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 223
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “esne-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسنمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 115