Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish صارسمق, صارصمق (sarsmak, to shake with a shock, to joggle), from Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Cognate to Karakhanid [script needed] (sarsıtmāk, to ill-use, treat harshly), [script needed] (sarsıɣlı, violent), Old Uyghur [script needed] (sarsıɣ, harsh), Azerbaijani sarsımaq (to be shaken, shocked), Chagatai [script needed] (sarsamaq, to be shaken, quiver), Turkmen sarsmak (to shudder, quiver). Clauson thinks there is no obvious semantic connection to modern Turkish, Azeri and Turkmen forms.[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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sarsmak (third-person singular simple present sarsar)

  1. (transitive) to shake, convulse, jar, jolt
  2. (transitive) to shock
  3. (transitive) to affect, weaken, upset, afflict

Conjugation

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Synonyms

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References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “sarsı:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 854

Further reading

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  • sarsmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu