sapmak
- (intransitive, with-dative) To change direction, to turn to, to swerve to, to veer into.
- (intransitive, with-ablative) To digress from; to deviate from (one's goal).
- (figuratively, intransitive) To deviate from the norm, to abandon the right path.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sapˈmak/
Etymology
In summary
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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