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okumak

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish اوقومق (okumak, to read, decipher, study, learn, recite, chant, sing), from Proto-Turkic *okï- (to call, read, recite).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (okı-, to read, call), Azerbaijani oxumaq (to read, sing), Bashkir уҡыу (uqıw, to read), Kazakh оқу (oqu, to read, recite), Kyrgyz окуу (okuu, to read, study), Turkmen okamak (to read, study), Uzbek oʻqimoq (to learn, study, read), Yakut угуй (uguy, to call).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /okuˈmak/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: o‧ku‧mak

Verb

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okumak (third-person singular simple present okur)

  1. (transitive) to read
  2. (transitive) to study, peruse
  3. (transitive) to sing; to chant, recite
  4. (transitive) to announce
  5. (transitive) to decipher
  6. (intransitive) to study, attend school

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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