yakmak

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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).[1]

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)

  1. (transitive) to light; to ignite; to set fire to, set on fire
  2. (transitive) to scorch, sear, burn
  3. (transitive) to burn down, incinerate
  4. (transitive) to turn on, light (electric lights)
  5. (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)

  1. (transitive) to apply to, smear on
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References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jak-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill