kokmak
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish قوقمق (kokmak), from Proto-Turkic *kok-.[1][2][3]
Cognate with Karakhanid قُوقْماقْ (qoqmaq, “to give out a smell”), Azerbaijani qoxumaq (“to putrefy, go bad”), Turkmen kokamak (“to stink”).
Pronunciation
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[edit]kokmak (third-person singular simple present kokar)
- (intransitive) To smell, to give out a scent.
- (intransitive) To have a bad smell, to stink, to reek.
- Burası kokuyor. ― This place stinks.
- (intransitive, figuratively) For something to show signs of, to feel about to happen.
Conjugation
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), “1 kok-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 609
- ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*Kok-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kok-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “kokmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kokmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2711