okumak

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اوقومق (okumak, to read, decipher, study, learn, recite, chant, sing), from Proto-Turkic *okï- (to call, read, recite).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic (okı-, to read, call), Azerbaijani oxumaq (to read, sing), Bashkir уҡыу (uqıw, to read), Kazakh оқу (oqu, to read, recite), Kyrgyz окуу (okuu, to read, study), Turkmen okamak (to read, study), Uzbek oʻqimoq (to learn, study, read), Yakut угуй (uguy, to call).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /okuˈmak/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: o‧ku‧mak

Verb

okumak (third-person singular simple present okur)

  1. (transitive) to read
  2. (transitive) to study, peruse
  3. (transitive) to sing; to chant, recite
  4. (transitive) to announce
  5. (transitive) to decipher
  6. (intransitive) to study, attend school

Conjugation

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Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*okɨ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill