eylemek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ایلمك (eylemek), from older *eðle-,[1] ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ed (thing, goods).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ej.le.mec/

Verb

eylemek (third-person singular simple present eyler)

  1. (transitive) to make, do
    Synonyms: etmek, yapmak
  2. (with ablative case) to deprive, debar
    Synonym: etmek

Usage notes

Not commonly used as “etmek” and “yapmak” to mean “to do, make” on its own, but mainly to form active verbs from Arabic and Persian verbal nouns.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • eylemek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

References

  1. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “eylemek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ed”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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