akmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آقمق, from Proto-Turkic *ak-, *iak- (“to flow”). Cognate with Old Turkic (ak-). Cognate with Azerbaijani axmaq, Crimean Tatar aqmaq, Uzbek oqmoq, Uyghur ئاقماق (aqmaq), Khorezmian Turkic اقماق, Kumyk акъмакъ (aqmaq), Turkmen akymak, Bashkir ағыу (ağıw), Kazakh ағу (ağu), Kyrgyz агуу (aguu), Southern Altai агар (agar), Shor ағарға, Khalaj aqqar.

Pronunciation

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Verb

akmak (third-person singular simple present akar)

1. (intransitive) to flow (move as a fluid)
2. (transitive) to leak

Conjugation

Derived terms

• akım (“streamflow”)
• akın (“influx”)
• akış (“flow”)
• akıcı (“fluent”)
• akaç (“drain”)
• akak (“channel”)
• akmaz (“viscous”)
• akışmak (“to flow together”)
  • akışkan (“fluid”)
• akıtmak (“to pour”)

References

• Joseph Harold Greenberg, "Indo-European and its closest relatives." 2. Lexicon. Stanford University Press, 2002, p. 180.
• “akmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “akmak”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı