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yıldırmak

Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish ییلدیرمق (yıldırmak). The word yıldırım (“thunderbolt”) is not etymologically related.

Verb edit

yıldırmak (third-person singular simple present yıldırır)

  1. causative of yılmak: to cause fear

References edit

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ییلدیرمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1370
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 1257
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