# بوزمق
## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *buŕ-.

### Verb

بُوزْمَقْ (bozmaq, buzmaq)
* (transitive) to demolish, to destroy, to ruin, to damage
* (transitive) to break, to damage

#### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: pozmaq
* Gagauz: bozmaa
* Ottoman Turkish: بوزمق (bozmak)
** Turkish: bozmak
*** → Ladino: bozear

### References

* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bozmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bozmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 663
* Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) “buz-”, in A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 22, 30, 83

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بُوزْمَقْ (bozmaq), from Proto-Turkic *buŕ- / *boŕ- (“to damage, destroy”); cognate with Azerbaijani pozmaq, Bashkir боҙоу (boźow), Chuvash пӑс (păs), Kazakh бұзу (būzu), Kyrgyz бузуу (buzuu) and Uzbek buzmoq.

### Verb

بوزمق • (bozmak)
* (transitive) to demolish, knock down, pull down, to destroy a building
    Synonym: ییقمق (yıkmak)
* (transitive) to destroy, ruin, to damage something beyond use or repair
    Synonym: ییقمق (yıkmak)
* (transitive) to corrupt, deprave, pervert, to change from good to bad
* (transitive) to vitiate, spoil, to reduce the value or quality of something
* (transitive) to disturb, to confuse a constant state or a continuous flow
* (transitive) to nullify, cancel, invalidate, to make something legally invalid
    Synonym: ابطال ایتمك (ibtal etmek)
* (transitive) to abolish, abrogate, to end a law, institution, custom or practice
* (transitive) to taint, to contaminate or corrupt either physically or morally
* (transitive) to obliterate, deface, to damage or vandalize something, like a surface
* (transitive) to adulterate, to spoil something by adding impurities or other substances

#### Derived terms

* آبدست بوزمق (abdest bozmak, “to ease nature”)
* آقچه بوزمق (akça bozmak, “to give small change for money”)
* اوروج بوزمق (oruc bozmak, “to break the fast”)
* بوزان (bozan, “who or which spoils”)
* بوزدرمق (bozdurmak, “to make or let be spoilt”)
* بوزش (bozuş, “mode or degree of spoiling”)
* بوزشمق (bozuşmak, “to quarrel”)
* بوزغون (bozgun, “deranged; spoilt”)
* بوزلمق (bozulmak, “to become spoilt”)
* بوزم (bozum, “act of breaking up”)
* بوزمه (bozma, “pervert, proselyte”)
* بوزنتی (bozuntu, “old materials, scraps”)
* بوزوق (bozuk, “spoilt; corrupted”)
* بوزیجی (bozucu, “one who abitually spoils”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: bozmak
** → Ladino: bozear

### References

* ↑ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*buŕ- / *boŕ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bozmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 668
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بوزمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 131a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوزمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 286
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Corrumpere”, 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, Vienna, column 293
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوزمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 920
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “boz-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوزمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 399