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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اولمق (olmak, “to exist, be, become, happen, fit, ripen, mature”), from Old Anatolian Turkish (ol-), (bol-, “to become”), from Proto-Turkic *bōl- (“to become”). Now-obsolete bolmak was dominant until the end of the 16th century, and coexisted with olmak, which was attested quite early too. The relation between the two is unclear; according to Dybo, forms commencing with o- may very well represent a different root (see oturmak). On the other hand, the geographical distribution of this variant matches quite closely the change *b- > v- (see Turkish var (“there is”), or vermek (“to give”)) so it may indeed mirror the following change: *bol- > *vol- > ol-. But this change is not seen in b-l words in Turkish (e.g; bol, bal, bel, balık, bölmek, bilmek, bulmak, bilemek), which raises the possibility that the origin of the word is from *ol-.
Pronunciation
Verb
olmak (third-person singular simple present olur)
- (intransitive) to become, come to exist, come into being
- to happen, occur, be, take place, befall
- to be, to have or occupy a place or position, be located or situated at
- (with possessive marker on object) to have, own
- (of time) to pass, elapse, be
- to suffice, be acceptable, be all right, be okay
- to be possible, be apparently valid, be likely, be plausible
- to ripen, mature; (for food) to be cooked, be done
- (+ dative, of clothes) to fit, suit
- Synonym: yakışmak
- (+ ablative) to lose, be deprived of
- to have, undergo something, to be afflicted with, suffer from, experience something negative, to catch a disease
Sigara içerek ancak kanser olursun.- The only thing you'll get out of smoking is cancer.
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
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bōl-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2015-02-12) “ol-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük