sapmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صاپمق (sapmak, to swerve, deviate, diverge, go astray), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (sap-, to deviate, lead away from), from Proto-Turkic *sap- (to leave the way, go astray, deviate).[1]

Cognate with Azerbaijani sapmaq (to wander away), Chuvash супма (supma, to turn, go astray, lose one's reason), Turkmen sap (dodge, trick).

Verb

sapmak (third-person singular simple present sapar)

  1. (intransitive, with dative) to turn to, make a turn to; to turn into, enter (a road); to swerve to, veer to
  2. (intransitive, with ablative) to digress from; to deviate from (one's goal); to depart from

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • sapma
  • sapış
  • sapa
  • sapık
  • sapak
  • sapkın
  • sapılmak
  • sapıtmak
  • saptırmak
  • sapmamak
  • sapamamak
  • sapabilmek

References

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