saplamak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صاپلامق‎ (ṣaplamaḳ, “to thrust a sharp pointed thing into, to put a handle to”)[1], from Proto-Turkic *sạpla- (“to attach a handle”), from Proto-Turkic *sạp (“hilt of a knife or sword”)[2][3], morphologically sap +‎ -la +‎ -mak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sap.ɫaˈmak/
  • Hyphenation: sap‧la‧mak

Verb

saplamak (third-person singular simple present saplar)

  1. (transitive, with dative) To stab, to jab, to stick into.

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890), “صاپلامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1151
  2. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*sạp”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “sapla-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

  • saplamak in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.