براقمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bïrak- (“to abandon”); cognate with Azerbaijani buraxmaq, Bashkir [script needed] (bıraqtır-), Chuvash пӑрах (părah), Karakhanid [script needed] (bıraq-) and Yakut бырах (bıraq).

Verb

براقمق • (bırakmak)

1. (transitive) to release, relinquish, let go (of), to cease to hold or contain
2. (transitive) to leave, to cause or allow something to remain as available
3. (transitive) to leave, depart, go away, to separate from a place or person
4. (transitive) to abandon, forsake, desert, to leave behind or permanently
5. (transitive) to quit, give up, to stop doing something, like smoking or drinking

Derived terms

• آرالق براقمق (aralık bırakmak, “to leave a space vacant”)
• آشاغی براقمق (aşağı bırakmak, “to let drop”)
• آچق براقمق (açık bırakmak, “to leave open”)
• براقدرمق (bırakdırmak, “to make or let be released”)
• براقش (bırakış, “a manner or way of leaving”)
• براقلمق (bırakılmak, “to be left, abandoned”)
• براقمه (bırakma, “act of releasing of leaving”)
• دمیر براقمق (demir bırakmak, “to anchor”)
• یره براقمق (yere bırakmak, “to let fall to the ground”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: brakmaa
• Turkish: bırakmak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bırakmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 588
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “براقمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 112a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “براقمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 259
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Derelinquere”, 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 359
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “براقمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 747
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bırak-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “براقمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 352