# اوتورمق
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* اوترمق (oturmak), اوطرمق (oturmak), اوطورمق (oturmak)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (otur-, “to sit”), from Proto-Turkic *oltur- (“to sit”). Cognate with Azerbaijani oturmaq, Bashkir ултырыу (ultırıw), Kazakh отыру (otyru), Kyrgyz отуруу (oturuu), Turkmen oturmak, Uyghur ئولتۇرماق (olturmaq), Uzbek oʻtirmoq and Yakut олор (olor).

### Verb

اوتورمق • (oturmak) (third-person singular aorist اوتورور (oturur))
* (intransitive) to sit, to be in a resting position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks
    Synonyms: جلوس ایتمك (culus etmek), نشست ایتمك (nişest etmek)
* (intransitive) to live, dwell, reside, lodge, to settle or have a residence permanently or for a considerable time
    Synonym: اقامت ایتمك (ikâmet etmek)
* (intransitive, nautical) to strand, run aground, beach, to be immobilized by water too shallow to allow it to float

#### Derived terms

* آشاغی اوتورمق (aşağı oturmak, “to sit in a lower position”)
* اكری اوتورمق (eğri oturmak, “to sit in an unseemly posture”)
* اوتوراق (oturak, “rest, halt; chamber pot”)
* اوتورتمق (oturtmak, “to seat”)
* اوتوردلمق (oturdulmak, “to be seated”)
* اوتورش (oturuş, “a manner of sitting”)
* اوتورشمق (oturuşmak, “to sit down together in company”)
* اوتورغان (oturgan, “given to sitting or halting”)
* اوتورلمق (oturulmak, “to be suitable for sitting on”)
* اوتورم (oturum, “seat, sitting”)
* اوتورمه (oturma, “sitting”)
* راحت اوتورمق (rahat oturmak, “to sit in a comfortable posture”)
* شابه اوتورمق (şaba oturmak, “to be in great distress”, literally “to ground on a coral reef”)
* طوغری اوتورمق (doğrı oturmak, “to sit properly”)
* قان اوتورمق (kan oturmak, “to leave a blood blister”)
* قولوچقه‌یه اوتورمق (koloçkaya oturmak, “to sit on eggs, brood”)
* كول اوزره اوتورمق (kül üzre oturmak, “to be in great poverty or need”)
* كوپ اوزرنده اوتورمق (küp üzerinde oturmak, “to gain a lot of riches”, literally “to sit on a jar”)
* یوقاری اوتورمق (yukarı oturmak, “to sit in a higher position”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: oturmak

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اوتورمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 137
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “oturmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3650
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوترمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 75a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوتورمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 174
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sedere”, 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 1531
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوترمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 485
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “otur-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوتورمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 237