güreşmek

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Turkish

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish كورشمك (güreşmek), from Proto-Turkic *küreĺ- (to wrestle, to struggle, to fight),[1] from *kür (courageous, bold).[2][3]

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /ɟy.ɾeʃˈmec/
  • Hyphenation: gü‧reş‧mek

Verb

[edit]

güreşmek (third-person singular simple present güreşir)

  1. (intransitive, with -la, or ile, sports) to wrestle (with)
  2. (intransitive, with -la, or ile, figuratively) to struggle (with)

Conjugation

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “küreş-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 747
  2. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kür”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 735
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “güreş-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

[edit]