بكنمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bẹken- (“to feel joy, appreciate; to strive, hope”); cognate with Azerbaijani bəyənmək, Chuvash пикен (pik̬en), Karakhanid [script needed] (biken-) and Turkmen begenmek.

Verb

بگنمك • (beğenmek)

1. (transitive) to like, appreciate, enjoy, be pleased by, be in favor of
2. (transitive) to select, prefer, favor, to choose something rather than something else

   Synonym: آیرمق (ayırmak)

3. (transitive) to approve, find appropriate or suitable, regard as good, be pleased with

Derived terms

• بگندرمك (beğendirmek, “to make to be liked”)
• بگنش (beğeniş, “a mode of liking”)
• بگنلمك (beğenilmek, “to be liked”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: beğenmek
• → Macedonian: бендисува (bendisuva)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “beğenmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 526
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بكنمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 274
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Placere”, 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 1303
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بكنمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 866
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “beğen-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بكنمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 378