Etymology

Inherited from Proto-TurkicCategory:Ottoman Turkish terms inherited from Proto-Turkic#پوصمقCategory:Ottoman Turkish terms derived from Proto-Turkic#پوصمق *bus- (“to hide, lay an ambush”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed]Category:Requests for native script for Old Turkic terms#پوصمق (bus-, “to ambush”), Azerbaijani pusmaq (“to spy”), Bashkir боҫоу (bośow, “to hide, lurk”), Turkmen busmak (“to hide”) and Uzbek pismoq.

Verb

پوصمق • (pusmak)Category:Ottoman Turkish lemmas#پوصمقCategory:Ottoman Turkish verbs#پوصمقCategory:Ottoman Turkish entries with incorrect language header#پوصمقCategory:Pages with entries#پوصمقCategory:Pages with 1 entry#پوصمق

1. (intransitiveCategory:Ottoman Turkish intransitive verbs#پوصمق) to crouch, bend down, stoop low, to stand close to the ground
2. (intransitiveCategory:Ottoman Turkish intransitive verbs#پوصمق) to lie in wait, to be hiding, waiting to ambush or attack someone
3. (intransitiveCategory:Ottoman Turkish intransitive verbs#پوصمق) to cringe, cower, shrink, recoil or flinch, usually in fear

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “pusmak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3909
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “پوصمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎ (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 327
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “pus-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پوصمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 459