بكزتمك

Ottoman Turkish

Verb

بڭزتمك • (beñzetmek) [with accusative and dative]

  1. causative of بڭزه‌مك (beñzemek)
  2. to compare with, to liken to
    • 1923, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Nur Baba‎[1], page 67:
      نكار خانم، بو چهره‌یی قره قلمله چیزلمش بر حواری رسمنه، خاصةً كنج بر «سن جان»ه بكزتدی.
      Nigar Hanım, bu çehreyi karakalemle çizilmiş bir havari resimine, hassaten genc bir "San Jan"a benzetti.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. to mistake for

Descendants

  • Turkish: benzetmek
  • → Armenian: պէնզէթմիշ (pēnzētʻmiš), բա̈նզա̈թմիշ (bänzätʻmiš)

Further reading

  • Robert Avery et al., editors (2013), “benzetmek”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بكزتمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 273
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