Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish ایلمك (eylemek), from older *eðle-,[1] ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ed (thing, goods).[2]

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

eylemek (third-person singular simple present eyler)

  1. (transitive) to make, do
    Synonyms: etmek, yapmak
  2. (with ablative case) to deprive, debar
    Synonym: etmek

Usage notes edit

Not commonly used as “etmek” and “yapmak” to mean “to do, make” on its own, but mainly to form active verbs from Arabic and Persian verbal nouns.

Conjugation edit

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Further reading edit

  • eylemek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

References edit

  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “eylemek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ed”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill