aşmak

Signification

1. (transitive) to cross, traverse (a mountain, a river, a sea); to go through (a forest); to traverse (a road)
2. (transitive) to overcome, surmount
3. (transitive) to overtake, pass
4. to surpass, exceed, to be more than, to be in excess of
5. (transitive) to transcend; to pass beyond the limits of something.

Étymologie

From Ottoman Turkish آشمق (aşmak, “to pass, go beyond, pass the limits”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (aş-, “to cross, overflow”), from Proto-Turkic *(i)āĺ- (“to cross (a mountain), to surpass”).
cognates
Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰽𐰑𐰢 (s¹d¹m /⁠aşdım⁠/, “I crossed”), Karakhanid [script needed] (āşmāk, “to cross”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (aş-, “to cross”), Azerbaijani aşmaq (“to get across”), Bashkir ашыу (aşıw, “to go over, surpass”), Kazakh асу (asu, “to cross, exceed”), Khakas азарға (azarğa, “to surpass, overcome”), Kyrgyz ашуу (aşuu, “to cross, to be in excess”), Southern Altai ажар (ažar, “to cross”), Turkmen āşmak (“to cross”), Tuvan ажар (ajar, “to surpass”), Uyghur ئاشماق (ashmaq, “to cross, exceed, surpass”), Uzbek oshmoq (“to cross, surpass”), Yakut аас (aas, “to go past, pass”).