uğraşmak

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Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوغراشمق (uġraşmak, to struggle or fight with another or one another, to strive hard at something),[1] from Ottoman Turkish اوغرامق (uġramak, to go to, through or by a place, to meet, to encounter), from Proto-Turkic *ugra- (to meet, to go to meet, to intend),[2][3] morphologically uğra- +‎ +‎ -mak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uːɾaʃˈmak/
  • Hyphenation: uğ‧raş‧mak

Verb

uğraşmak (third-person singular simple present uğraşır)

  1. (intransitive) To strive for, to struggle for.
  2. (intransitive, with instrumental or ile) To work hard or continuously on something.
  3. (intransitive, with instrumental or ile) To fight with.
  4. (intransitive, with instrumental or ile, figuratively) To bully or harass someone.
    Synonyms: sataşmak, çatmak

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Descendants

  • Ladino: ugrashear

References

  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوغراشمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 256
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “**ug-ur-, *ug-ra-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “uğraş-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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