Azerbaijani

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *buŕ-, *boŕ- (to damage, destroy).[1] Cognate with Turkish bozmak, Chuvash пӑс (păs, break, destroy), etc.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [pozˈmɑχ]
  • Hyphenation: poz‧maq.
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Verb

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pozmaq

  1. (transitive) to erase (to remove what is written)
    yazıb pozmaqto write and to erase
  2. (transitive) to break (to violate, to not adhere to)
    qanunu pozmaqto break the law
    vədini pozmaqto break the promise
  3. (transitive) to break (to interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate)
    sükutu pozmaqto break the silence
    orucunu pozmaqto break the sawm
  4. (transitive) to disturb (to divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.)
    rahatlığını pozmaqto disturb someone's comfort
    əhvalını pozmaqto disturb someones's good mood, to upset someone
  5. to disorder, to disturb, to unsettle, disrupt
    bütün planları pozmaqto disrupt all plans
  6. to spoil, to ruin (to cause impairment of)
    sağlamlığı pozmaqto ruin the health
  7. to spoil (to ruin the character by overindulgence)
  8. to spoil (to debauch, to corrupt, to pervert, sometimes with sexual connotations)
  9. to dissolve, to annul
    nikahı pozmaqto dissolve the marriage

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Armenian: փոզմիշ (pʻozmiš)

References

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