eğmek

Turkish

Etymology

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

eğmek (third-person singular simple present eğer)

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

Conjugation

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • eğri
  • eğme
  • eğiş
  • eğici
  • eğim
  • eğik
  • eğilmek
  • eğdirmek
  • eğmemek
  • eğememek
  • eğebilmek

References

  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
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