oxumaq

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic охумаг
Roman oxumaq
Perso-Arabic اوخوماق

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *okɨ-[1] Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (okï-) and Turkish okumak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [oχumaχ]
  • Hyphenation: o‧xu‧maq

Verb

oxumaq

  1. to read
    kitab oxumaqto read a book
  2. to study
    Bakı Dövlət Universitetində psixologiya oxuyuram.
    I study psychology in Baku State University.
  3. to sing
    Toyda mahnı oxumaq istəyirəm.
    I want to sing a song at the wedding.
    Bu quşlar nə gözəl oxuyur!
    These birds sing so beautifully!

Conjugation

References

  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
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