صوسامق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *subsa- (“to thirst”); cognate with Azerbaijani susamaq, Bashkir һыуһау (hıwhaw), Kazakh сусау (susau), Kyrgyz суусоо (suusoo), Turkmen suwsamak, Tuvan суксаар (suksaar), Uyghur ئۇسسۇماق (ussumaq) and Uzbek suvsamoq.

Verb

صوسامق • (susamak)

1. (intransitive) to thirst, to be or become thirsty

Descendants

• Turkish: susamak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “susamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4361
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صوسامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 772
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “susa-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوسامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1191