bulmak
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish بولمق (bulmak, “to find, discover, invent, reach”), from Proto-Turkic *bul-mak (“to find”).[1]
Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰞 (b¹ul¹ /bul-/, “to find, acquire”), Karakhanid بُلْماقْ (bulmāq, “to find”), Yakut бул (bul, “to find, locate, get”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bulmak (third-person singular simple present bulur)
- (transitive) to find
- (transitive) to discover
- (transitive) to invent
- (transitive) to reach (a place, a time)
- (transitive) to amount to (a sum)
- (transitive) to reach, achieve (an end, health, success)
Conjugation
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- tapmak (outdated)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bul-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill