saymak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صایمق (saymak, “to count, take into account, consider, respect, value, deem, suppose”), from Proto-Turkic *sā(j)- (“to count, to consider”).

Cognate with Karakhanid (sa-, “to count, consider, suppose”), Azerbaijani saymaq (“to count, consider”), Chuvash сума (suma, “to count, consider, honor, respect, read”), Turkmen saýmak (“to think, assume, suppose, consider”), Yakut аах (aaq, “to read, count, consider”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

saymak (third-person singular simple present sayar)

1. (intransitive) to count, carry out counting

   Yüze kadar sayabilirim. ― I can count up to 100.

2. (transitive) to count, make a numerical count of
3. (transitive) to list, specify, enumerate
4. (transitive) to respect, value, regard
5. (transitive) to take into account, consider
6. (transitive) to deem, regard, reckon, look upon
7. (intransitive, with dative) to pay so much money for, to overpay

Conjugation

Derived terms

• sayma
• sayış
• sayım
• saymaca
• sayaç
• saygı
• saygın
• sayıştay
• sayman
• varsaymak
• bilgisayar
• sayılmak
• saydırmak
• sayışmak
• saymamak
• sayamamak
• sayabilmek

Related terms

• sayı
• san
• sanmak
• sayıklamak
• saylav
• sayrı

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “say-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük