kokmak

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish قوقمق (kokmak), from Proto-Turkic *kok-.[1][2][3]

Cognate with Karakhanid قُوقْماقْ (qoqmaq, to give out a smell), Azerbaijani qoxumaq (to putrefy, go bad), Turkmen kokamak (to stink).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kokˈmɑk/
  • Hyphenation: kok‧mak

Verb

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kokmak (third-person singular simple present kokar)

  1. (intransitive) To smell, to give out a scent.
  2. (intransitive) To have a bad smell, to stink, to reek.
    Burası kokuyor.This place stinks.
  3. (intransitive, figuratively) For something to show signs of, to feel about to happen.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “1 kok-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 609
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kok-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kok-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

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