acıkmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آجیقمق (acıkmak, to be hungry, to hunger), from Proto-Turkic *ạ̄č-ɨk-, intensive form of *ạ̄č- (to hunger). Cognate to (hunger, hungry). Turkic cognates include Old Turkic 𐰀𐰲 (āč-, to hunger), Karakhanid [script needed] (ačïk-, to writhe with hunger), Bashkir асығыу (asïğïw, to hunger), Kazakh ашығу (aşığw, to hunger), Tatar ачыгу (açığu, to hunger), Turkmen ājykmak (to hunger), Uzbek ochiqmoq (to hunger), Yakut аас (aas, to hunger).

/t͡ʃ/ to /d͡ʒ/ after the succeeding vowel due to original long vowel in the first syllable, compare also conjugated forms of (hunger, hungry) to observe the same instance.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɑ.d͡ʒɯk.mɑk]

Verb

acıkmak (third-person singular simple present acıkır)

  1. (intransitive) to hunger; be hungry, feel hunger, feel peckish

Conjugation

Antonyms

References

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972), “açık-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 23
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