tanımaq

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Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic танымаг
Abjad تانیماق

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tạnu- (to know, get to know)[1] Cognate to Turkish tanımak, Turkmen tanamak, Kazakh тану (tanu), Kyrgyz тануу (tanuu), Salar danı, Uyghur (tonumaq),[2] Chuvash тынӑ (tynă, eyewitness).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɑnɯˈmɑχ/
  • Hyphenation: ta‧nı‧maq
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Verb

tanımaq

  1. (transitive) to know (a person)
    Sən onu çoxdandan tanıyırsan?
    Have you known him/her for a long time?
    Hə, amma sözün düzü o qədər yaxından tanımıram.
    Yes, but to be honest, I don't know him/her that well (lit. 'closely').
    Dost dar gündə tanınar. (proverb)
    A friend in need is a friend indeed.
    (literally, “A friend is known/recognized in times of need.”)
  2. to be familiar with a place, to find one's way
    Mən buranı yaxşı tanımıram. Gəl naviqatoru yandıraq!
    I don't know this area very well, let's turn on the GPS!
  3. (transitive) to recognize
    Dostum o qədər arıqlayıb ki, onu görəndə tanımadım.
    My friend has lost so much weight, that I didn't recognize him when I saw him.
  4. (transitive, by extension) to acknowledge, to recognize
    Təzə qurulan dövləti hələ heç kim tanımayıb.
    No one has recognized the newly created state yet.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • tanış (acquaintance)
  • tanıtmaq (to introduce; to make acknowledged)

See also

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tạnu-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. ^ Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “tanımaq”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 72