بوغمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bog- (to strangle); cognate with Azerbaijani boğmaq, Bashkir быуыу (bıwıw), Chuvash пӑв (păv), Kazakh буу (buu), Kyrgyz буу (buu), Turkmen bogmak, Uyghur بوغۇلۇش (boghulush) and Uzbek bo'g'moq.

Verb

بوغمق • (boğmak)

  1. (transitive) to choke, strangle, suffocate, throttle, to squeeze the throat
  2. (transitive) to drown, to kill someone by suffocating in water or other liquid
  3. (transitive, figuratively) to overwhelm, overpower, inundate, flood

Derived terms

  • بوغان (boğan, strangling, suffocating)
  • بوغدرمق (boğdurmak, to make or let be strangled)
  • بوغشمق (boğuşmak, to fly at each other's throat)
  • بوغلمق (boğulmak, to be strangled)
  • بوغمه (boğma, strangulation)
  • بوغنمق (boğunmak, to choke oneself)

Descendants

  • Turkish: boğmak

Further reading

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