iğrenmek

See also: igrenmek

Turkish

Etymology

Akin to Old Turkic [script needed] (yigren-, to be disgusted, abhor), maybe from Old Turkic [script needed] (yīg, raw, uncooked (meat)),[1] from Proto-Turkic *yigre- (to hate, abhor).[2] See çiğ.

Verb

iğrenmek (third-person singular simple present iğrenir)

  1. (intransitive, + ablative case) to feel disgust (at), be disgusted (with); to loathe, abhor, hate
    Synonym: tiksinmek
    Örümceklerden iğrenirim.I hate spiders.

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

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