көлөү

Bashkir

Егет көлә.
Young man is laughing.

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kül- (“to laugh”).

Cognate with Tatar көлү (kölü), Kazakh күлу (külu), Uzbek kulmoq, Uyghur كۈلمەك (külmek), Turkish gülmek, Yakut күл (kül), Chuvash кул (kul, “to lauch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʏ̞l-/

Verb

көлөү • (kölöw) (intransitive)

1. (takes the object in dative or ablative case) to laugh
2. (takes the object in ablative case) to laugh at smb/sth., to make fun of; to deride; to mock