قیصمق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قصمق (kısmak), قسمق (kısmak)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kïs- (“to squeeze”).

Verb

قیصمق • (kısmak)

1. to catch, pinch
2. to fold, crease
3. to reduce
   1. to lower one's voice
   2. to be stingy with money, to spend less on

Descendants

• Gagauz: kısmaa
• Turkish: kısmak

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kısmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2637
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیصمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1508
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “قیصمق”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 703a
• Baskakov, N. A. (1991) İsmail Kaynak, A. Mecit Doğru, transl., Gagauz Türkçesinin Sözlüğü [The Dictionary of Gagauz Turkish] (in Turkish), Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, page 148