Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish بوكمك,[1] from Proto-Turkic *bük- (to bow, curve, bend).[2] Compare Azerbaijani bükmək.

Verb edit

bükmek (third-person singular simple present büker)

  1. To bend
  2. To curve
  3. To entwist
  4. To fold
  5. To inflect

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوكمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 406
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill: “*bi̯ŭ̀k`í”