Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish صاپمق (ṣapmaḳ, to swerve, deviate, diverge, go astray),[1] from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (sap-, to deviate, lead away from), from Proto-Turkic *sap- (to leave the way, go astray, deviate).[2][3]

Cognate with Azerbaijani sapmaq (to wander away), Chuvash супма (supma, to turn, go astray, lose one's reason), Turkmen sap (dodge, trick).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /sapˈmak/
  • Hyphenation: sap‧mak

Verb edit

sapmak (third-person singular simple present sapar)

  1. (intransitive, with dative) To change direction, to turn to, to swerve to, to veer into.
  2. (intransitive, with ablative) To digress from; to deviate from (one's goal).
  3. (intransitive, figurative) To deviate from the norm, to abandon the right path.

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صاپمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1151
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sap-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sark-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading edit

  • sapmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu