sığmak

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صیغمق (sığmak, to go in, get in), from Proto-Turkic *sïg- (to enter, fit into).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic (sıɣ-, to fit into), Azerbaijani sığmaq (to go in), Bashkir һыйыу (hıyıw, to fit), Kazakh сыю (syü, to fit in), Kyrgyz сыюу (sıyuu, to fit in), Southern Altai сыйар (sïyar, to go (into)), Turkmen sygmak (to find room), Uzbek sigʻmoq (to fit in).

Pronunciation

Verb

sığmak (third-person singular simple present sığar)

  1. (intransitive) to fit into (a container or place)

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References

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