çürümək
Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *čẹr (“rotten, foul; to rot; illness; dirt; to be sick, ill; rot; glue; anguish, sorrow”) [1] whence possibly also Azerbaijani çirk (“dirt”). Cognate with Azerbaijani çürümek.
Verb
çürümək
- (intransitive) to rot
Conjugation
Derived terms
- çürütmək (“to make rot”)
References
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čẹr-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill