sormak

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: sor‧mak

Etymology 1

From Old Turkic (sor-, “to ask, search, go after”), from Proto-Turkic *sōr(a)- (“to ask”). Compare Mongolian сорих (sorix, “to test, experiment, try”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Cognate with Kazakh сұрау (sūrau, “to ask, inquire”), Turkmen soramak (“to ask, query”), Tuvan сураар (suraar, “to seek, look for”), Uzbek soʻramoq (“to ask, request”). Also cognate with Mongolian сурах (surax, “1. to learn, study 2. to ask”), a Turkic borrowing.

Verb

sormak (third-person singular simple present sorar)

1. (transitive) to ask, ask about, inquire about

   'Bir soru sorabilir miyim? ― May I ask a question?

2. (transitive) to look for, want to see (someone)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• istemek
• aramak

Derived terms

• sorma
• soruş
• sorun
• sorum
• soruşmak
• sorulmak
• sordurmak
• sormamak
• soramamak
• sorabilmek

Related terms

• soru

Etymology 2

See soğurmak.

Verb

sormak (third-person singular simple present sorar)

1. (transitive) to suck; to slurp

Derived terms

• sorunmak
• soruşmak
• sormuk
• sormaç

Conjugation

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