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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 Old Anatolian Turkish اكمك (egmek), 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).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: eğ‧mek

Verb

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eğmek (third-person singular simple present eğer)

  1. (transitive) to lean, tilt, or bend
  2. (transitive) to bend, to curve
  3. (intransitive, Sivas) to hurry
    Synonyms: acele etmek, (archaic) ivmek

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

Further reading

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  • eğmek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “eğmek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • eğmek”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982