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dokunmak

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Turkish

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Etymology 1

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From Ottoman Turkish طوقونمق (dokunmak, to touch, be in contact, affect, concern, injure, excite emotion), reflexive form of Proto-Turkic *tokï- (to hit, knock, strike).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tokı-, to hit, knock), Karakhanid [script needed] (tokın-, to hit, bump into), Azerbaijani toxunmaq (to touch), Kazakh тоқылдау (toqyldau, to knock), Tuvan токкулаар (tokkulaar, to tap, knock), Uyghur توقۇنماق (toqunmaq, to touch), Uzbek toʻqinmoq (to touch).

Verb

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dokunmak (third-person singular simple present dokunur)

  1. (intransitive) to touch, contact
    Bana dokundun!You touched me!
  2. (intransitive) to disturb, meddle with, upset, affect adversely
Usage notes
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  • Used with dative case.
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Etymology 2

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Reflexive/passive form of dokumak (to weave).

Verb

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dokunmak (third-person singular simple present dokunur)

  1. (intransitive) to be woven
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Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tokɨ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill