Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish بیله‌مك (bilemek, to sharpen), from Proto-Turkic *bile- (to sharpen).[1] Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (bile-, to sharpen), Southern Altai билеер (bileer, to whet), билӱ (bilü), Kumyk билев (bilew), etc.

Verb edit

bilemek (third-person singular simple present biler)

  1. (transitive) to sharpen, whet, grind

Conjugation edit

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References edit

  1. ^ 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: “*bi̯ŭ́le”