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azmak

Pronunciation: /azˈmak/

“azmak” is a Turkish word. Its 15 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to go astray, stray, err, to deviate from the path of duty or rectitude
  2. to go astray, to lose one's way
  3. (a wound) to worsen
  4. to go mad, to become furious and unmanageable, dangerous, or ferocious
  5. to overflow
  6. to get out of control, to become dangerous
  7. to get horny
  8. to become impossible to clean
  9. to be born of two different races or species
  10. to overgrow
  11. to sour; to get sour, to become sour

noun

  1. a puddle of water created by the overflowing of a body of water
  2. a stream of water separating from the main body of water
  3. swamp, swampland
  4. the place where a river and the sea merge

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آزمق (azmak, “to leave the way, go astray, act outrageously, go mad”), from Old Anatolian Turkish آزمق (azmaq), from Proto-Turkic *āŕ- (“to go astray, lose one's way”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰀𐰕 (az /⁠āz-⁠/, “to go astray, to lose one's way”), Bashkir аҙыу (aðıw, “to lead immoral life, degenerate”), Southern Altai азар (azar, “to go astray”), Azerbaijani azmaq,…

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