çözmek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish چوزمك (çözmek, “to untie, unfasten, loosen, unravel, solve”), from Proto-Turkic . Cognate with Karakhanid (çöžmēk, “to pull, stretch”), Azerbaijani çözmək (“to resolve”), Chagatai (çözmek, “to take off, pull off, disperse”), Khorezmian Turkic (çöz-, “to loosen, untie”), Kipchak (çöz-, “to untwist, untie”), Turkmen çözmek (“to untie, unleash, solve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃœzˈmec/

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• Hyphenation: çöz‧mek

Verb

çözmek (third-person singular simple present çözer)

1. (transitive) to untie, unfasten, unbutton
2. (transitive) to unravel, disentangle, undo
3. (transitive) to solve, resolve, decipher, figure out, reason
4. (transitive) to dissolve, thaw, defrost

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References

Further reading

• “çözmek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “çöj-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 400