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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish بوغلمق (boğulmak). Compare Crimean Tatar boğulmaq (“to drown”), Azerbaijani boğulmaq (“to drown”).
Pronunciation
Verb
boğulmak (third-person singular simple present boğulur)
- passive of boğmak (“to strangle”)
- (intransitive) to drown (to die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid)
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.