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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بایلمق (bayılmak, “to faint; swoon away, to be excessively delighted”), passive of Proto-Turkic *bańï- (“to fade away, disappear, weaken”).
Pronunciation
Verb
bayılmak (third-person singular simple present bayılır)
- (intransitive) to faint, pass out
- (intransitive, + dative case) to be thrilled (with), be enraptured (by), like greatly
- Çikolataya bayılırım. ― I like chocolate so much.
- (transitive, slang) to pay (money)
Conjugation
1 The suffixes -ken and -cesine may be suffixed to the base form of any of the following tenses: aorist, continuous, inferential (even when it follows another suffix), and future.
Derived terms
- baymak (informal) TV programı baydı. ― TV program sucks.
References
Further reading
- “bayılmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu