Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bog- (to strangle); cognate with Azerbaijani boğmaq, Bashkir быуыу (bıwıw), Chuvash пӑв (păv), Kazakh буу (buu), Kyrgyz буу (buu), Turkmen bogmak, Uyghur بوغۇلۇش (boghulush) and Uzbek bo'g'moq.

Verb

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بوغمق (boğmak)

  1. (transitive) to choke, strangle, suffocate, throttle, to squeeze the throat
  2. (transitive) to drown, to kill someone by suffocating in water or other liquid
  3. (transitive, figuratively) to overwhelm, overpower, inundate, flood

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Turkish: boğmak

Further reading

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