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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ییلدیرمق (yıldırmak). The word yıldırım (“thunderbolt”) is not etymologically related.
Verb
yıldırmak (third-person singular simple present yıldırır)
- causative of yılmak: to cause fear
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ییلدیرمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1370
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 1257