صاغمق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sag- (to milk); cognate with Azerbaijani sağmaq, Chuvash су (su), Kazakh сауу (sauu), Kyrgyz саа (saa), Turkmen sagmak, Tuvan саар (saar), Uzbek sogʻmoq and Yakut ыа (ıa).

Verb

صاغمق • (sağmak) (third-person singular simple present صاغار (sağar))

  1. (transitive) to milk, emulge, express, to draw milk from a mammal, especially a cow
  2. (figurative) to milk, exploit, take advantage of, to make an excessive use of something
  3. (figurative) to fleece, con, rip off, defraud, swindle, to trick someone out of money

Derived terms

  • بال صاغمق (bal sağmak, to deceive, literally to milk honey)
  • صاغدرمق (sağdırmak, to make or let be milked)
  • صاغلمق (sağılmak, to be milked)
  • صاغم (sağım, single act of milking)
  • صاغمال (sağmal, kept for milking)
  • صاغی (sağı, milk-pail)

Descendants

  • Turkish: sağmak

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