saçmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صاچمق (saçmak, to scatter, sprinkle), from Proto-Turkic *sạč- (to scatter, spatter, sow), which, according to the controversial Altaic hypothesis, is possibly derived from Proto-Altaic *šéčo (to scatter, pour out).

Verb

saçmak (third-person singular simple present saçar)

  1. (transitive) to scatter, strew, sprinkle, spill
  2. (transitive) to sow
  3. to radiate
  4. (transitive) to splurge, spend lavishly

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References

  • Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *šéčo”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972), “saç-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 794
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