یازمق

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yạŕ- (“to write”).

Verb

یَازْمَقْ (yazmaq)

1. (transitive) to write
2. (transitive) to draw, to paint

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: yazmaq
• Gagauz: yazmaa
• Ottoman Turkish: یازمق (yazmak)
  • Turkish: yazmak

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish یَازْمَقْ (yazmaq), from Proto-Turkic *yạŕ- (“to write”). Cognate with Azerbaijani yazmaq, Bashkir яҙыу (yaźıw), Chuvash ҫыр (śyr), Kazakh жазу (jazu), Kyrgyz жазуу (jazuu), Turkmen ýazmak, Uyghur يازماق (yazmaq) and Uzbek yozmoq.

Verb

یازمق • (yazmak) (third-person singular aorist یازار (yazar))

1. (transitive) to write, to form letters, words, numbers, or symbols on a surface in order to communicate

   Synonyms: زبر ایتمك (zebr etmek), كتب ایتمك (ketb etmek), مسطور ایتمك (mestur etmek), نمق ایتمك (nemk etmek)

2. (transitive) to engrave, carve, incise, inscribe, to write or cut words or symbols onto a hard surface

   Synonym: قازمق (kazmak)

3. (transitive) to register, record, enroll, to make a record of information or to enter a name in a register

   Synonym: قید ایتمك (kayıd etmek)

4. (transitive) to register, enlist, recruit, to enroll new members on behalf of an organization, team, or army

Derived terms

• عسكر یازمق (ʼasker yazmak, “to enroll or enlist a soldier”)
• یازان (yazan, “writing, that writes”)
• یازدیرمق (yazdırmak, “to make or let be written”)
• یازشمق (yazışmak, “to write to each other”)
• یازلمق (yazılmak, “to be written”)
• یازم (yazım, “single act of writing”)
• یازمه (yazma, “written, manuscript”)
• یازنمق (yazınmak, “to write for one's own self”)
• یازوب بوزمق (yazub bozmak, “to write and cancel”)
• یازوب چیزمك (yazub çizmek, “to count, calculate”)
• یازیش (yazış, “manner of writing”)
• یازیق (yazık, “providence, judgement”)

Related terms

• یازی (yazı, “writing”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yazmak

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “یازمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 864
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yazmak3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5267
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یازمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 500b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یازمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1338
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scribere”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1522
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یازمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5542
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yaz-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یازمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2184