ayıklamak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آیرتلمق (ayırtlamaḳ, to make or show a difference or preference for, to select, to clear of refuse),[1] from Proto-Turkic *adïrtla- (to differentiate, to separate),[2] from *adïrt (difference, separation), from *adïr- (to separate),[3][4] equivalent to ayı(k)- + -la + -mak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.jɯk.laˈmac/
  • Hyphenation: a‧yık‧la‧mak

Verb

ayıklamak (third-person singular simple present ayıklar)

  1. (transitive) To separate and remove unwanted things from inside another thing; to sift, to filter, to winnow.
    Synonyms: elemek, elekten geçirmek
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To remove people unwanted or deemed unnecessary; to weed out.

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آیرتلمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 293
  2. Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “adırtlamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 116
  3. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*adɨ-r-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  4. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ayıkla-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

  • ayıklamak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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