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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish بولمق (bulmak, “to find, discover, invent, reach”), from Proto-Turkic *bul-mak (“to find”).[1]
Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰞 (b¹ul¹ /bul-/, “to find, acquire”), Karakhanid بُلْماقْ (bulmāq, “to find”), Yakut бул (bul, “to find, locate, get”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buɫ.mɑk/
- Hyphenation: bul‧mak
Verb
bulmak (third-person singular simple present bulur)
- (transitive) to find
Seni yakışıklı buluyorum.- I find you handsome.
- (transitive) to discover
- Synonym: keşfetmek
Arkeologlar Çorum'da yeni bir tarihi eser bulmuşlar.- Archeologists have discovered a new historical artifact in Çorum.
- (transitive) to invent
- Synonym: icat etmek
Barutu Çinliler buldu.- Chinese (people) invented the gunpowder.
- (transitive) to reach (a place, a time)
- (transitive) to amount to (a sum)
- (transitive) to reach, achieve (an end, health, success)
Yıllarca çalıştı, çabaladı ve sonunda istediği hayatı buldu.- She had worked so hard for years, and finally received the life she desired.
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.
Synonyms
References
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bul-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill