dönmek

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See also: dönmək

Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish دونمك (dönmek),[1] from Proto-Turkic [Term?].

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /dønmek/, [dœnmec]
  • Hyphenation: dön‧mek

Verb[edit]

dönmek (third-person singular simple present döner) (+ dative)

  1. to turn
    Babam birdenbire bana döndü.
    My father suddenly turned to me.
  2. to return
    Ertesi gün aynı yoldan Bodrum'a döndük.
    The next day we returned to Bodrum via the same route.
  3. to become, turn into
    buzluğa su konulduğunda, bir süre sonra buza döner.
    when water is put in a freezer, after a while it becomes ice.
  4. to happen, to brew
    buralarda ne türlü işler dönüyor kim bilir...
    who knows what types of things are brewing here...
  5. to rotate
  6. to be converted to another religion

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دونمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 928

Further reading[edit]

  • dönmek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
  • dönmek in Reverso (Turkish-English)