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Cyrillic дурмаг
Abjad دورماق

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *tur- (to stand) [1] Cognate with Turkish durmak, Turkmen durmak, Crimean Tatar turmaq, Uzbek turmoq, Uyghur تۇرماق (turmaq), Kazakh тұру (tūru), Tatar turu, Chuvash тӑр (tăr).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [durˈmɑχ]
  • Hyphenation: dur‧maq
  • Audio (Baku):(file)

Verb

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durmaq (intransitive)

  1. to stand
    Synonym: dayanmaq
    Bütün günü ayaq üstə durmuşam, çox yorğunamI've been standing up all day, I'm very tired.
    Növbədə durmaqTo stand in the queue
    • 1937, Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, Vasvası :
      Yanı uşaqlı bir rus qadını durmuşdu.
      A Russian woman with children was standing next to him.
  2. to stand up, get up
    Synonym: qalxmaq
    Səhər tezdən durmaq.To get up early in the morning.
    Avtobusa minəndə cavanlar durub mənə yer verirlər, deyəsən qocalmışam.
    When I get onto the bus, young people stand up and give up their seats to me, it seems I've become old.
  3. to stop, halt
    Synonym: dayanmaq
    • 1959, Anar, Hekayə[1], archived from the original on 26 October 2017:
      Trolleybus gəlib dayanacağında durdu.
      The trolley bus arrived to the stop and halted.
  4. (imperative only) to wait
  5. to be still
    Synonym: tərpənməmək
    • 1937, Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, Vasvası :
      Ağacların budaqları darvazanın tağının üzərindən sallanaraq sakit durmuşdu.
      The branches of the tree were hanging over the gate arch and being still.
  6. to be alive, to be around
    Synonyms: sağ olmaq, həyatda olmaq
    Qoca kişi hələ də durur.The old man still lives.
  7. (vulgar) to become erect

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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