asmak

See also: aşmak

Turkish

Etymology

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

Verb

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

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • asılmak
  • asışmak
  • astırmak

References

  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
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