اینانمق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• انانمق (inanmak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ïnan- (“to believe”); cognate with Azerbaijani inanmaq, Bashkir инаныу (inanıw), Chuvash ӗнен (ĕnen), Kazakh нану (nanu), Kyrgyz ынануу (ınanuu), Turkmen ynanmak, Uyghur ئىنەنمەك (inenmek) and Uzbek inonmoq.

Verb

اینانمق • (inanmak)

1. (transitive) to entrust, to trust to the care of
2. (intransitive) to believe, to accept something as true
3. (intransitive) to confide, trust, to have faith in

Derived terms

• اینانش (inanış, “a mode of believing”)
• اینانلمق (inanilmak, “to be believed”)
• اینانمز (inanmaz, “incredulous”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: inanmak
• → Armenian: ինանմիշ (inanmiš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “inanmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2169
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “انانمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 68b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اینانمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 227
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Credere”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 298
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اینانمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 615
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “inan-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اینانمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 309