See also: igrenmek

Turkish

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Etymology

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Akin to Old Turkic [script needed] (yigren-, to be disgusted, abhor), maybe from Old Turkic [script needed] (yīg, raw, uncooked (meat)),[1] from Proto-Turkic *yigre- (to hate, abhor).[2] See çiğ.

Verb

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iğrenmek (third-person singular simple present iğrenir)

  1. (intransitive, + ablative case) to feel disgust (at), be disgusted (with); to loathe, abhor, hate
    Synonym: tiksinmek
    Örümceklerden iğrenirim.I hate spiders.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iğrenmek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  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: “*ĺḕgì”