kulak asmak
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قولاق آصمق (ḳulaḳ aṣmaḳ, “to lend an ear, to listen”),[1] equivalent to compound of kulak (“ear”) + asmak (“to hang, to let loose”), literally “to hang (one's) ear”. See Azerbaijani qulaq asmaq for more.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]kulak asmak (third-person singular simple present kulak asar)
- (intransitive, idiomatic, with dative) To heed, to pay attention, to listen carefully.
- Kulak as sözüme. ― Listen to my speech carefully
Conjugation
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قولاق آصمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1493
Further reading
[edit]- “kulak asmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kulak asmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2827