çevirmek
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish چویرمك (çevirmek), from Proto-Turkic *čebir- (“to twist, turn; round”).[1] Compare Chuvash ҫавӑр (śavăr, “to turn over”).
Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]çevirmek
- to turn over
- to translate
- to dial (a number on an old-fashioned telephone)
- to surround, encircle, enclose
Conjugation
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- tercüme etmek (translate)
- döndürmek (turn over)
- tuşlamak (dial on a modern telephone)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*čebir-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
[edit]- Robert Avery et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 250