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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اورمق (urmak, vurmak), from Old Anatolian Turkish اورمق (urmaq), from Proto-Turkic *ur-. Cognate with Azerbaijani vurmaq, Old Turkic 𐰆𐰺 (ur-), Kyrgyz уруу (uruu), Uzbek urmak, Gagauz urmaa, Turkmen urmak.
Pronunciation
Verb
vurmak (third-person singular simple present vurur)
- (transitive) to hit, to strike, to pound, to beat
- ona vurdum ― I hit him
- (transitive) to shoot, to launch a projectile
- (intransitive) to reach an extent
- (transitive) to beat something to make a sound
- uyansın diye davula vurdu ― he beat the drum to wake him up
- (intransitive) to be felt
- Synonyms: hissedilmek, duyulmak
- (transitive) to influence negatively
- (intransitive) to fall upon
- bana güneş vuruyor ― the sunlight is falling upon me
- (ditransitive) to tie up, to dress up
- ona zincir vurdular ― they tied him up in chains
- (intransitive) to touch swiftly
- (ditransitive) to smear, to rub
- Synonym: sürmek
- (transitive) to associate with, to connect with
- (intransitive) to look like something it is not
- (transitive) to beetle, to tack down, to mall
- Synonym: kakmak
- (transitive) to apply
- Synonym: uygulamak
- (transitive) to make a sound
- Synonym: çalmak
- (transitive) to effect one's health negatively
- Synonym: dokunmak
- (transitive) to put
- Synonyms: koymak, yerleştirmek
- (colloquial) to make a money in an illegal or immoral way
- (transitive, mathematics) to multiply
- Synonym: çarpmak
- ikiyi beşe vurmak ― to multiply two by five
- (transitive, Mersin) to load
- Synonym: yüklemek
- (transitive, Niğde) to change direction, to turn
- Synonyms: yönelmek, sapmak
- (transitive, Niğde) to coincide
- Synonyms: isabet etmek, denk getirmek
Conjugation
1 The suffixes -ken and -cesine may be suffixed to the base form of any of the following tenses: aorist, continuous, inferential (even when it follows another suffix), and future.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “vurmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “vurmak”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “vurmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- “vurmak”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982