bilmək

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		билмәк
Abjad		بیلمک

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bil- (“to know”) Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰠 (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]
• IPA^(key): [bilˈmej]
• IPA^(key): [bilˈmɑχ]
• Hyphenation: bil‧mək

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
4. (intransitive) to falsely assume, to mistakenly believe sth (only when used with elə).

   Mən elə bilirdim ki biz artıq evdəyik ― I thought we were already home [though we weren't].

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• bildirmək (“to let know; to notify”)
  • bildiriş (“notification”)
• bilgi (“knowledge”)
• bilik (“knowledge”)
  • biliklik (“encyclopedia”)
• bilinmək (“to be/become known”)