صالمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish صالمق (salmaq, “to throw, drop”), from Proto-Turkic *sal- (“to put, throw, drop”).

Cognates

Cognate with Azerbaijani salmaq, Bashkir һалыу (halıw), Crimean Tatar salmaq, Chuvash сулма (sulma), Kazakh салу (saluw), Kyrgyz салуу (saluu), Turkmen salmak, Tuvan салыр (salır), Uyghur سالماق (salmaq) and Uzbek solmoq.

Verb

صالمق • (salmak) (third-person singular aorist صالار (salar))(transitive)

1. to release, loose, free, let go, relinquish

   Synonym: براقمق (bırakmak)

   دومان صالمق ― duman salmak ― to release smoke

   قوش صالماق ― kuş salmak ― to free a bird

2. to throw, hurl, fling, cast, launch, toss

   Synonym: آتمق (atmak)

3. to send, send off, dispatch

   Synonyms: ارسال ایتمك (irsâl etmek), سوق ایتمك (sevk etmek), كوندرمك (göndermek), یوللامق (yollamak)

4. to postpone, delay, defer, procrastinate

   Synonym: تأخیر ایتمك (teʼhir etmek)

5. to lay out, arrange, set up, organize

   Synonyms: حاضرلامق (hazırlamak), قورمق (kurmak)

   تمل صالمق ― temel salmak ― to lay out a foundation

6. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) to impose, enforce

Derived terms

• سایه صالمق (saye salmak, “to afford protection”, literally “to send off shade”)
• صالدرمق (saldırmak, “to attack”, literally “to cause to release”)
• صالشمق (salışmak, “to throw at”)
• صالنمق (salınmak, “to swing, rock, oscillate”)

Descendants

• Turkish: salmak
• → Armenian: սալմիշ (salmiš)

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “صالمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 190
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “salmak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4044
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “صالمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 296a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “صالمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 751
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Mittere”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1060
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “صالمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2921
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “صالمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1161