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Turkish
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: yak‧mak
Etymology 1
From Ottoman Turkish یاقمق (yakmak, “to burn”), from Proto-Turkic *yak- (“to burn”).
Cognate with Karakhanid (yak-, “to burn”), Chuvash ҫут (śut, “to set on fire, light”), Kazakh жағу (jağu, “to burn”), Kyrgyz жагуу (jaguu, “to burn”), Turkmen ýakmak (“to burn”), Uyghur ياقماق (yaqmaq, “to kindle, light”), Uzbek yoqmoq (“to burn”), Yakut сах (saq, “to strike fire”).
Verb
yakmak (third-person singular simple present yakar)
- (transitive) to light; to ignite; to set fire to, set on fire
- (transitive) to scorch, sear, burn
- (transitive) to burn down, incinerate
- (transitive) to turn on, light (electric lights)
- (transitive) to burn; to irritate, bite, scathe
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Etymology 2
Akin to Karakhanid (yak-, “to come near, touch, smear on”), Uyghur ياقماق (yaqmaq, “to stick, adhere, smear on, apply to”).
Verb
yakmak (third-person singular simple present yakar)
- (transitive) to apply to, smear on
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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.
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