bilmək

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Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic билмәк
Abjad بیلمک

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bil- (to know)[1] Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰠 (b²il² /⁠bil-⁠/, to know), Turkish bilmek, Crimean Tatar bilmek, Uzbek bilmoq (to know). Crimean Tatar bilmek, Kazakh білу (bılu, to know), Tatar белү (belü)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bilˈmæk], [bilˈmæj]
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Absheron" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): [bilˈmej]
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Tabriz" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): [bilˈmɑχ], [bylˈmɑχ][2]
  • Hyphenation: bil‧mək
  • Audio (Baku):(file)

Verb

bilmək

  1. (transitive) to know
    Çox yaşayan çox bilməz, çox yer gəzən çox bilər
    It is not necessarily the one who has lived longed that knows a lot, but the one who has been to many places.
    (literally, “One who lives long won't know a lot, one who travels many places will know.”)
  2. (transitive) to be able
    • 1906, Sultanməcid Qənizadə, Allah xofu; republished as “Allah xofu”, in Həmid Araslı, Abbas Zamanov, editors, Sultanməcid Qənizadə. Seçilmiş əsərləri, Baku: Avrasiya Press, 2006, page 120:
      Muzdur Məşədi Əsgər rusca danışmaq bilmirdi.
      Farmworker Məşədi Əsgər couldn't speak Russian.
  3. (transitive) to consider, view
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  4. (intransitive) to falsely assume, to mistakenly believe something (only when used with elə).
    Mən elə bilirdim ki biz artıq evdəyikI thought we were already home [though we were not].

Usage notes

  • Bilmək is never used in the sense 'to know someone'; the verb used in the latter sense is instead tanımaq.

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bil-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. ^ Haneda, Koichi (2009—2010) “bilmək”, in لغات لهجه‌ی تبریز [Vocabulary of Tabrizi Dialect] (in Persian), Tabriz: یاران, →ISBN, page 94