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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طورمق (durmak), from Old Anatolian Turkish طورمق (durmaq), from Proto-Turkic *tur- (“to stand”). Cognate with Kazakh тұру (tūru), Turkmen durmak, Crimean Tatar turmaq, Uzbek turmoq, Uyghur تۇرماق (turmaq), Azerbaijani durmaq, Tatar turu, Chuvash тӑр (tăr), Gagauz durmaa.
Pronunciation
Verb
durmak (third-person singular simple present durur)
- to stop
Yağmur durdu.- The rain stopped.
- to stand; to sit still; to remain
- to last; to continue to be, to keep being
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
References
- “durmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طورمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1254
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN