قوصمق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • قوسمق (kusmak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kus- (to vomit);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani qusmaq, Chuvash хӑсак (hăs̬ak), Kazakh құсу (qūsu), Kyrgyz кусуу (kusuu), Turkmen gusmak, Uyghur قۇسماق (qusmaq) and Uzbek qusmoq.

Verb

قوصمق • (kusmak)

  1. (transitive) to vomit, throw up, puke, to regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Derived terms

  • قان قوصمق (kan kusmak, to vomit blood)
  • قوصدرمق (kusdurmak, to make or let vomit)
  • قوصمیق (kusmuk, vomited matter, vomit)
  • قوصندی (kusundu, vomited matter, vomit)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kusmak

References

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

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