Turkish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دیله‌مك (dilemek, to wish for, to desire, to long for, to request),[1] from Proto-Turkic *tile- (to wish), from *til (tongue, language) +‎ *-ge.[2][3]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /di.leˈmec/
  • Hyphenation: di‧le‧mek

Verb edit

dilemek (third-person singular simple present diler)

  1. (transitive) To wish, to request.
    Synonyms: rica etmek, istemek, arzu etmek
  2. (intransitive) To make a wish for someone.
    Bana şans dile!
    Wish me luck!

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دیله‌مك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 939
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dɨl / *dil”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dilek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading edit

  • dilemek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu