Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish ایلمك (eylemek), from older *eðle-,[1] ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ed (thing, goods).[2]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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eylemek (third-person singular simple present eyler)

  1. (transitive) to make, do
    Synonyms: etmek, yapmak, kılmak
  2. (with ablative case) to deprive, debar
    Synonym: etmek

Usage notes

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Not commonly used as “etmek” and “yapmak” to mean “to do, make” on its own, but mainly to form active verbs from Arabic and Persian verbal nouns.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • eylemek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

References

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  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “eylemek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ed”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill