olmak

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اولمق (olmak, to exist, be, become, happen, fit, ripen, mature), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (ol-), [script needed] (bol-, to become), from Proto-Turkic *bōl- (to become).[1] Now-obsolete bolmak was dominant until the end of the 16th century,[2] and coexisted with olmak, which was attested quite early too. The relation between the two is unclear; according to Dybo, forms commencing with o- may very well represent a different root (see oturmak). On the other hand, the geographical distribution of this variant matches quite closely the change *b- > v- (see Turkish var (there is), or vermek (to give)) so it may indeed mirror the following change: *bol- > *vol- > ol-. But this change is not seen in b-l words in Turkish (e.g; bol, bal, bel, balık, bölmek, bilmek, bulmak, bilemek), which raises the possibility that the origin of the word is from *ol-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [oɫˈmɑk]
  • Hyphenation: ol‧mak

Verb

olmak (third-person singular simple present olur)

  1. (intransitive) to become, come to exist, come into being
  2. to happen, occur, be, take place, befall
  3. to be, to have or occupy a place or position, be located or situated at
  4. (with possessive marker in object) to have, own
  5. (of time) to pass, elapse, be
  6. to suffice, be acceptable, be all right, be okay
  7. to be possible, be apparently valid, be likely, be plausible
  8. to ripen, mature; (for food) to be cooked, be done
  9. (with dative case, of clothes) to fit, suit
  10. (with ablative case) to lose, be deprived of
  11. to have, undergo something, to be afflicted with, suffer from, experience something negative, to catch a disease

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bōl-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2015-02-12) “ol-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

  • olmak in Reverso (Turkish-English)