eğmek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اكمك (eymek, to bend, curve, bow), from Proto-Turkic *eg- (to bend).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (eg-, to bend), Azerbaijani əymək (to bend, tilt), Bashkir эйеү (eyew, to bend), Chuvash авма (avma, to bend), Kazakh ию (ïyw, to bend), Kyrgyz ийүү (iyüü, to bend), Turkmen egmek (to bend, bow), Tuvan ээр (äär, to bend, wrap), Uzbek egmoq (to fold, bend), Yakut иэх (iex, to bend).

Verb

eğmek (third-person singular simple present eğer)

  1. (transitive) to lean, tilt, or bend

Conjugation

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • eğme
  • eğiş
  • eğici
  • eğim
  • eğik
  • eğilmek
  • eğdirmek
  • eğmemek
  • eğememek
  • eğebilmek

References

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