Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish اوقومق (okumak, to read, decipher, study, learn, recite, chant, sing), from Proto-Turkic *okï- (to call, read, recite).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (okı-, to read, call), Azerbaijani oxumaq (to read, sing), Bashkir уҡыу (uqıw, to read), Kazakh оқу (oqu, to read, recite), Kyrgyz окуу (okuu, to read, study), Turkmen okamak (to read, study), Uzbek oʻqimoq (to learn, study, read), Yakut угуй (uguy, to call).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /okuˈmak/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: o‧ku‧mak

Verb edit

okumak (third-person singular simple present okur)

  1. (transitive) to read
  2. (transitive) to study, peruse
  3. (transitive) to sing; to chant, recite
  4. (transitive) to announce
  5. (transitive) to decipher
  6. (intransitive) to study, attend school

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

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