طوتمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tut- (“to grasp”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐱃𐰆𐱃 (t¹ut¹ /⁠tut-⁠/), Azerbaijani tutmaq, Bashkir тотоу (totow), Chuvash тыт (tyt), Kazakh тұту (tūtu), Kyrgyz тутуу (tutuu), Turkmen tutmak, Uyghur تۇتماق (tutmaq), Uzbek tutmoq and Yakut тут (tut).

Verb

طوتمق • (tutmak)

1. (transitive) to hold, grasp, grip, clasp, to take hold, particularly with the hand
2. (transitive) to catch, grab, seize, clutch, to deliberately take hold of
3. (transitive) to seize, capture, to take control of by force or stratagem
4. (transitive) to occupy, to take up, use, or fill space
5. (transitive) to hire, engage, to obtain the services of in return for fixed payment

Derived terms

• او طوتمق (ev tutmak, “to hire a house”)
• اوزون طوتمق (uzun tutmak, “to spin off”)
• طوتدرمق (tutdurmak, “to make or let be caught”)
• طوتش (tutuş, “manner of holding”)
• طوتشمق (tutuşmak, “to quarrel”)
• طوتقون (tutkun, “seized, captured”)
• طوتلمق (tutulmak, “to be held, seized, etc.”)
• طوتم (tutum, “single act of catching”)
• طوتماج (tutmac, “kind of dish”)
• طوتنمق (tutunmak, “to apply, attach one's self”)
• قولاق طوتمق (kulak tutmak, “to give ear”)
• گوز طوتمق (göz tutmak, “to have one's eye on something”)
• یوز طوتمق (yüz tutmak, “to incline toward”)
• یول طوتمق (yol tutmak, “to take a path”)

 

Related terms

• طوتاق (tutak, “handle”)
• طوتقال (tutkal, “glue”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: tutmaa
• Turkish: tutmak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tutmak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4922
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طوتمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 316a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طوتمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 813
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Capere”, 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 145
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طوتمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 3137-3138
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tut-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوتمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1251