dokunmak

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish طوقونمق (dokunmak, to touch, be in contact, affect, concern, injure, excite emotion), reflexive form of Proto-Turkic *tokï- (to hit, knock, strike).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tokı-, to hit, knock), Karakhanid [script needed] (tokın-, to hit, bump into), Azerbaijani toxunmaq (to touch), Kazakh тоқылдау (toqıldaw, to knock), Tuvan токкулаар (tokkulaar, to tap, knock), Uyghur توقۇنماق (toqunmaq, to touch), Uzbek toʻqinmoq (to touch).

Verb

dokunmak (third-person singular simple present dokunur)

  1. (intransitive) to touch, contact
    Bana dokundun!You touched me!
  2. (intransitive) to disturb, meddle with, upset, affect adversely
Usage notes
  • Used with dative case.
Derived terms
  • dokunma
  • dokunuş
  • dokunaklı
  • dokunmatik
  • dokunulmak
  • dokundurmak
  • dokunmamak
  • dokunamamak
  • dokunabilmek

Etymology 2

Reflexive/passive form of dokumak (to weave).

Verb

dokunmak (third-person singular simple present dokunur)

  1. (intransitive) to be weaved
Derived terms
  • dokunmuş (weaved)

Conjugation

References

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