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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish یاپشمق (yapışmak, “to stick, adhere”), from Old Anatolian Turkish , from Proto-Oghuz (compare Azerbaijani yapışmaq (“to stick, adhere”), Turkmen ýapyşmak (“to stick”)), from Proto-Common Turkic (compare Old Turkic (yap-, “to glue (tr.)”)/ (yapış-, “to adhere, stick (intr.)”), Bashkir йәбешеү (yəbeşew, “to stick”), Kazakh жабысу (jabysu, “to cling”), Kyrgyz жабышуу (jabışuu, “to adhere”), Uzbek yopishmoq (“to adhere”), Tuvan чыпшыр (çıpşır, “to stick”), Yakut сыһын (sıhın, “to stick to”) and сибээ (sibee, “to smear”)), from Proto-Turkic *yapïĺč- (“to glue, stick to”) (compare Chuvash сыпӑҫ (syp̬ăś, “to adhere”)).
Verb
yapışmak (third-person singular simple present yapışır)
- (intransitive) to stick (to), adhere (to); to cling to
- (intransitive, figuratively) to cling to (someone) like a leech, latch onto (someone) like a leech
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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References
Further reading
- “yapışmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu