aşmak

Meaning

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

Synonyms

Frequency

C2
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آشمق (aşmak, “to pass, go beyond, pass the limits”), from Old Anatolian Turkish آشمق (aşmaq, “to cross, overflow”), from Proto-Common Turkic *āš- (“to cross (a mountain), to surpass”). Cognates Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰽𐰑𐰢 (s¹d¹m /⁠aşdım⁠/, “I crossed”), Karakhanid [script needed] (āşmāk, “to cross”), Old Uyghur 𐽰𐽰𐽿𐽹𐽰𐽷 (aş-, “to cross, to overcome”), 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”).

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