طالمق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• دالمق (dalmak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tāl- (“to sink”); cognate with Azerbaijani dalmaq, Tatar талау (talaw) and Turkmen dālmak.

Verb

طالمق • (dalmak)

1. (intransitive) to dive, plunge, to submerge oneself or leap into water or some other liquid
2. (intransitive) to plunge, to fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state, or condition

Derived terms

• اویقویه طالمق (uykuya dalmak, “to drop off into sleep”)
• ایشه طالمق (işe dalmak, “to become absorbed in an occupation”)
• بر قپویه طالمق (bir kapuya dalmak, “to enter without permission”)
• دریكه طالمق (deriñe dalmak, “to dive down deep”)
• طالدرمق (daldırmak, “to make or let dive, immerse”)
• طالغج (dalgıc, “diver”)
• طالغش (dalgış, “immersion”)
• طالغین (dalgın, “plunged in thought”)
• طالنمق (dalınmak, “to be dived into”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: dalmak

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “طالمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 267
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dalmak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1088
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طالمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 310a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طالمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 795
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Immergere”, 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 737
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طالمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3077
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dal-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طالمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1227