صارپ

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *sarp (“difficult; steep”).[1] Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (sarp), Azerbaijani sarp, Crimean Tatar sarp and Karakhanid [script needed] (sarp).

Adjective

صارپ • (sarp)

  1. steep, precipitous, scarped, abrupt, rising or falling sharply, almost vertical or perpendicular
    Synonym: دیك (dik)
  2. impracticable, impassable, impossible or difficult in practice, incapable of being passed over
    Synonyms: چتین (çetin), كچیلمز (geçilmez)
  3. (figurative) intractable, unyielding, stubborn, obstinate, persistent, refusing to give up or let go

Derived terms

  • صارپلاشمق (sarplaşmak, “to become difficult”)
  • صارپلق (sarplık, “steepness”)
  • صارپه صارمق (sarpa sarmak, “to become difficult”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: sarp
  • → Armenian: սարպ (sarp), սարփ (sarpʻ)

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), “sarp”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 845

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