başından savmak

== Turkish == === Etymology === Inherited from Ottoman Turkish باشدان صاومق (başdan ṣavmaḳ, “to tell one politely to go about his business, to get rid of”). Morphologically baş (“head”) +‎ -ı +‎ -ndan +‎ sav- (“to fend off, to get rid of”) +‎ -mak. Literally, “to fend off from one’s head”. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ba.ʃɯnˈdan sav.mak/ Hyphenation: ba‧şın‧dan‧sav‧mak === Verb === başından savmak (third-person singular simple present başından savar) (transitive) To turn away or avoid someone seeking to talk Synonyms: sepetlemek, yakayı kurtarmak, yakayı sıyırmak ==== Usage notes ==== baş must take a possessive depending on the verb's agent. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “başından savmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “başından savmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 489