قازمه

Ottoman Turkish

قازمه

Etymology

From قازـ (kaz-, “to dig, grave”) +‎ ـمه (-ma).

Noun

قازمه • (kazma)

1. verbal noun of قازمق (kazmak):
   1. digging, excavation, trenching, the act of digging out
   2. pickaxe, a heavy iron tool used to break stones or rocks

      Synonyms: صاقور (sakur), فاس (fas), كلنك (külünk)

Descendants

• Turkish: kazma
• → Adyghe: къазмэ (qazmɛ)
• → Albanian: kazmë
• → Arabic: قَزَم (qazam, “dwarf”)
• → Armenian: խազմա (xazma)
• → North Levantine Arabic: قَزْمَة (ʔazmi)
• → North Mesopotamian Arabic: قَزْمَة (qazma)
• → Egyptian Arabic: قَزْمَة (gazma)
• → South Levantine Arabic: قَزْمَة (gazma)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: qazme (“pick (digging tool)”)

  → Central Kurdish: قازمە (qazme, “pick (digging tool)”)

• → Romanian: cazma

Adjective

قازمه • (kazma)

1. dug, trenched, excavated

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kazma”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2511
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قازمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 927
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ligo”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 952
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قازمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3582
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kazma”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قازمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1416