See also: aşmak

Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish آصمق (asmak, to hang up, suspend), from Proto-Turkic *as- (to hang).[1]

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Verb edit

asmak (third-person singular simple present asar)

  1. (transitive) to hang, to suspend, to hang up, to append
  2. (transitive) to drape, to drape over, to sling
  3. (transitive) to string up, to truss
  4. (transitive) to hook
  5. (transitive) to hang, to execute
  6. to act despotically; to play the tyrant
  7. to play hooky, to skip class
  8. to neglect

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References edit

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