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eğmek

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Turkish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اگمك (eğmek, to bend, curve, bow), from Proto-Turkic *eg- (to bend).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰏 (eg-, to bend), Azerbaijani əymək (to bend, tilt), Bashkir эйеү (eyew, to bend), Chuvash ав (av, to bend), Kazakh ию (, to bend), Kyrgyz ийүү (iyüü, to bend), Southern Altai ийер (iyer, to bend), Turkmen egmek (to bend, bow), Tuvan ээр (eer, to bend, wrap), Uzbek egmoq (to fold, bend), Yakut иэх (ieq, to bend).

Verb

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eğmek (third-person singular simple present eğer)

  1. (transitive) to lean, tilt, or bend

Conjugation

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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References

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