Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish قیصقانمق (kıskanmak), قزقانمق (kızkanmak, to be jealous or envious), derived from Proto-Turkic *Kɨŕ (expensive, miserly).[1] Compare Karakhanid [script needed] (kız, rare, expensive).

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (kızɣan-, to grudge, be unwilling to give), Azerbaijani qısqanmaq (to be jealous), Chuvash хӗрхенме (hĕrh̬enme, to grudge, begrudge), Kyrgyz кызгануу (kızganuu, to be jealous), Uzbek qizgʻanmoq (to be jealous).

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Verb

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kıskanmak (third-person singular simple present kıskanır)

  1. (transitive) to be jealous of something or someone, envy
    Oğlum kardeşini kıskanıyor.My son is jealous of his brother/sister.
  2. (transitive) to grudge, begrudge

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References

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