بوزمق

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *buŕ- / *boŕ- (to damage, destroy);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani pozmaq, Bashkir боҙоу (boźow), Chuvash пӑс (păs), Kazakh бұзу (būzu), Kyrgyz бузуу (buzuu) and Uzbek buzmoq.

Verb

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بوزمق (bozmak)

  1. (transitive) to demolish, knock down, pull down, to destroy a building
    Synonym: ییقمق (yıkmak)
  2. (transitive) to destroy, ruin, to damage something beyond use or repair
    Synonym: ییقمق (yıkmak)
  3. (transitive) to corrupt, deprave, pervert, to change from good to bad
  4. (transitive) to vitiate, spoil, to reduce the value or quality of something
  5. (transitive) to disturb, to confuse a constant state or a continuous flow
  6. (transitive) to nullify, cancel, invalidate, to make something legally invalid
    Synonym: ابطال ایتمك (ibtal etmek)
  7. (transitive) to abolish, abrogate, to end a law, institution, custom or practice
  8. (transitive) to taint, to contaminate or corrupt either physically or morally
  9. (transitive) to obliterate, deface, to damage or vandalize something, like a surface
  10. (transitive) to adulterate, to spoil something by adding impurities or other substances

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Turkish: bozmak
    • Ladino: bozear

References

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

Further reading

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