Clauson (1972)
An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish
p. 370-371
bas-
‘to press, crush, oppress, make a surprise attack (on someone Acc.)’, and the like. S.i.a.m.l.g. in a wide range of basic and extended meanings, e.g. ‘to print’. See basa:. Türkü viii kırkız bodunığ uda: basdımız ‘we made a surprise attack on the Kırğız people while they were asleep’ I E 35; about a dozen similar occurrences: Uyğ. viii yelmesin meniŋ er anta: basmış ‘my men made a surprise attack on his reconnoitring patrol there’ Şu. E 12: viii ff. Man. (the pure blessed ones) [?ayığ]ların bastılar ‘have suppressed their evil (desires)’ TT III 121; o.o. M II, 11, 12, TT II 17, 72-5 (ıy-): Bud. (fold three fingers in the palm of the hand and) uluğ erŋek üze bas ‘press the thumb on them’ TT V 12, 120; o.o. TT VI 254-5, etc. (ıy-): Civ. tamğalarımıznı basıp ‘impressing our seals’ USp. 21, 10-11; a.o. TT I 97-8 (tıŋ): Xak. xi anı: bürt basdı: caṯama ‘alayhi’l-cāṯūm ‘he had a nightmare’; and one says beg e:l basdı: ‘the beg oppressed (qahara) the province and treated it as if he were crushing it’ (caṯama ‘alayhi); and one says begni: yağı: basdı: ‘the enemy (etc.) made a night attack on the beg’ (bayyata’l-amīr); and one says er kı:zığ basdı: ‘the man copulated with (taṣannama) the servant girl’; and one says ıt keyikni: basdı: ‘the dog caught the wild animal and brought it down’ (axaḏa . . . fa-ṣara‘ahu) Kaş. II 10 (basa:r, basma:k); five o.o.: KB bodun basğuka ‘in order to keep the people in order’ 217; (it takes a lion) bu kulan basğuka ‘to bring down this wild ass’ 284; özin basğan er ‘a man who controls himself’ 965; o.o. 1053, etc.: xiii(?) Tef. waṭi’a ‘to tread underfoot’ bas- 91: xiv Muh. ğamaza wa dāsa ‘to press, trample on’ ba:ṣ- Mel. 29, 9; bas- Rif. 113; al-daws baṣmak 34, 12; 119: Çağ. xv ff. bas- baṣ- Vel. 128; bas- is one of the words used in phr. (alfāẓ-i müşteraka) with a special meaning in each case; e.g. köŋül bas- dil-ārām giriftan ‘to take away (a man’s) peace of mind’; düşman bas- ‘to conquer (ğālib şudan) an enemy’; may bas- and uyku bas- ‘to be overcome (mağlūb şudan) by wine or sleep’; ayağ bas- ‘to put (guḏāştan) one’s foot on something’; muhr bas- ‘to impress a seal’; toz bas- ‘to lay (furū giriftan) the dust’; and kayğu: bas- ‘to overcome grief’ San. 121v. 18 (quotns.): Xwar. xiii(?) Oğ. 24-5 (1 emgek): xiv bas- ‘to tread on’ MN 226: Kom. xiv bas- ‘to crush’, etc. CCG; Gr. 51 (quotns.): Kıp. xiii kabasa ‘to make a surprise attack’ baṣ- Hou. 30, 5; 23, 5; dāsa mina’l-daws baṣ- do. 40, 5: xiv baṣ- ṣara‘a, and in the Kitāb Beylik baṣ- dāsa İd. 32: xv baṣ- baṭaḥa ‘to flatten’, aw dāsa aw kabasa Kav. 10, 9; o.o. do. 75, 4; 77, 16; dāsa baṣ- Tuh. 15b. 13; darasa ‘to annihilate’ (etc.) (yanş- and) baṣ- do. 16a. 9: Osm. xiv ff. bas- in a wide range of meanings, c.i.a.p. TTS I 75; II 107; III 67; IV 75.