sığmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صیغمق (sığmak, to go in, get in), from Proto-Turkic *sïg- (to enter, fit into).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (sıɣ-, to fit into), Azerbaijani sığmaq (to go in), Bashkir һыйыу (hıyıw, to fit), Kazakh сыю (syü, to fit in), Kyrgyz сыюу (sıyuu, to fit in), Turkmen sygmak (to find room), Uzbek sigʻmoq (to fit in).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɯː.mɑk/

Verb

sığmak (third-person singular simple present sığar)

  1. (intransitive) to fit into (a container or place)

Conjugation

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • sığma
  • sığış
  • sığa
  • sığılmak
  • sığışmak
  • sığdırmak
  • sığmamak
  • sığamamak
  • sığabilmek

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sɨg-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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