acıkmak

From Ottoman Turkish آجیقمق (acıkmak, “to be hungry, to hunger”), from Proto-Turkic *ạ̄č-ïk-, intensive form of *ạ̄č- (“to hunger”). Cognate to aç (“hunger, hungry”). Turkic cognates include Old Turkic 𐰀𐰲 (ač /⁠āč-⁠/, “to hunger”), Karakhanid (ačïk-, “to writhe with hunger”), Bashkir асығыу (asığıw, “to hunger”), Kazakh ашығу (aşyğu, “to hunger”), Tatar ачыгу (açığu, “to hunger”), Turkmen ājykmak (“to hunger”), Uzbek ochiqmoq (“to hunger”), Yakut аас (aas, “to hunger”).

/t͡ʃ/ to /d͡ʒ/ after the succeeding vowel due to original long vowel in the first syllable, compare also conjugated forms of aç (“hunger, hungry”) to observe the same instance.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ.d͡ʒɯk.mɑk/

acıkmak (third-person singular simple present acıkır)

1. (intransitive) to hunger; be hungry, feel hunger, feel peckish

• doymak

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “açık-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 23