Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *saru- (to wind around)[1]; cognate with Azerbaijani sarımaq, Chuvash сырма (syrma), Karakhanid [script needed] (sarūmāk), Khakas сарирға (sarirğa), Tatar сарырга (sarırga) and Turkmen saramak.

Verb edit

صارمق (sarmak)

  1. (transitive) to wrap, wind, to enclose or coil around an object or organism
  2. (transitive) to surround, environ, to encircle something or someone in all directions
  3. (transitive) to gird, girdle, to encircle or constrain with, or as if with a belt
  4. (intransitive, of plants) to climb, trail, to grow upwards by clinging to something

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Gagauz: sarmak
  • Turkish: sarmak
  • Armenian: սարմիշ (sarmiš)

References edit

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

Further reading edit