Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish اوگمك (öğmek, to praise), from Proto-Turkic *ög-mek, *ȫg-mek (to praise) .[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰇𐰏 (ög-, to praise), Karakhanid اۥوکْماكْ (ȫgmēk, to praise), Turkmen öwmek (to compliment, praise), Azerbaijani öymək (to praise), Tuvan өөрүүр (öörüür, to rejoice), Yakut үөр (üör, to rejoice).

Verb edit

övmek (third-person singular simple present över)

  1. (transitive) to compliment, praise, laud

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References edit

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