övmek

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish اوگمك (öğmek, to praise), from Proto-Turkic *ög-mek, *ȫg-mek (to praise) .[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰇𐰏 (ög-, to praise), Karakhanid اۥوکْماكْ (ȫgmēk, to praise), Turkmen öwmek (to compliment, praise), Azerbaijani öymək (to praise), Tuvan өөрүүр (öörüür, to rejoice), Yakut үөр (üör, to rejoice).

Verb

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övmek (third-person singular simple present över)

  1. (transitive) to compliment, praise, laud

Conjugation

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Antonyms

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References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ög-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill