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TURKISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

sapmak.

To change direction, to turn to, to swerve to, to veer into.

6 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

verb/sapˈmak/
  1. To change direction, to turn to, to swerve to, to veer into.

    intransitive · with-dative
  2. To digress from; to deviate from (one's goal).

    intransitive · with-ablative
  3. To deviate from the norm, to abandon the right path.

    figuratively · intransitive
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish صاپمق (ṣapmaḳ, “to swerve, deviate, diverge, go astray”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (sap-, “to deviate, lead away from”), from Proto-Turkic *sap- (“to leave the way, go astray, deviate”). Cognate with Azerbaijani sapmaq (“to wander away”), Chuvash супма (supma, “to turn, go astray, lose one's reason”), Turkmen sap (“dodge, trick”).

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