قورمق
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Turkic *kur- (“to erect a building, to establish”).[1]
Verb
editقورمق • (kurmak)
- to establish, organize
- to set a trap
- to wind up a clock
- to cock a gun
- to lay a foundation
- to pitch a tent
- to lay out a camp
- to set materials in order for fermentation
- to plan, devise
- to form, constitute (a meeting)
- (intransitive) to take strange, mad fancies into one's head
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- Turkish: kurmak
References
edit- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kur-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1484