ағыулау

Bashkir

Etymology

Synchronously, ағыу (ağıw, “poison”) +‎ -ла (-la, affix forming a verb).

Compare to Karakhanid [script needed] (ağula-, “to add poison into food”);[1] Tatar агуларга (ağularga, “to poison”), Uzbek ogʻulamoq (“to poison”), Uyghur ئوغۇلىماق (oghulimaq, “to poison”), Turkish ağılamak (“to poison”), Turkmen awulamak (“to poison”).

Verb

ағыулау • (ağıwlaw)

  1. (transitive) To use poison to kill or cause damage to somebody
  2. (transitive) To pollute; to cause to become poisonous
    Диоксин иң тәүҙә тупраҡты, һауаны ағыулай.
    Dioksin iñ təwźə tupraqtı, hawanı ağıwlay.
    Dioxin first of all pollutes soil (and) air.
  3. (transitive, agriculture) To treat (e.g. crops) with insecticide, herbicide etc.

References
  1. Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 24
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