sormak

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Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [soɾˈmak]
  • Hyphenation: sor‧mak

Etymology 1

From Old Turkic [script needed] (sor-, to ask, search, go after),[1] from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Turkic *sōr(a)- (to ask).[2] Compare Mongolian сорих (sorix, to test, experiment, try).

Cognate with Kazakh сұрау (sūrau, to ask, inquire), Turkmen soramak (to ask, query), Tuvan сураар (suraar, to seek, look for), Uzbek soʻramoq (to ask, request). Also cognate with Mongolian сурах (surax, 1. to learn, study 2. to ask), a Turkic borrowing.

Verb

sormak (third-person singular simple present sorar)

  1. (transitive) to ask, ask about, inquire about
    'Bir soru sorabilir miyim?May I ask a question?
  2. (transitive) to look for, want to see (someone)
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Etymology 2

See soğurmak.

Verb

sormak (third-person singular simple present sorar)

  1. (transitive) to suck; to slurp
Derived terms

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sor-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill: “*sṓra”