gerekmek

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish كركمك (gerekmek, to be needful, be necessary, be fitting, be suitable, be lacking), reflexive of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Turkic *gẹrge- (to need).[1] Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (kerge-, to lack, require, need), Azerbaijani gərəkmək and gərək, see it for more cognates.

Verb

gerekmek (third-person singular simple present gerekir)

  1. (intransitive) to be necessary, be needed, be required

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gẹrge-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill