Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish چوزمك (çözmek, to untie, unfasten, loosen, unravel, solve),[1] from Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (çöžmēk, to pull, stretch), Azerbaijani çözmək (to resolve), Chagatai [script needed] (çözmek, to take off, pull off, disperse), Khorezmian Turkic [script needed] (çöz-, to loosen, untie), Kipchak [Arabic needed] (çöz-, to untwist, untie), Turkmen çözmek (to untie, unleash, solve).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃœzˈmec/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: çöz‧mek

Verb edit

çözmek (third-person singular simple present çözer)

  1. (transitive) to untie, unfasten, unbutton
  2. (transitive) to unravel, disentangle, undo
  3. (transitive) to solve, resolve, decipher, figure out, reason
  4. (transitive) to dissolve, thaw, defrost

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوزمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 736

Further reading edit

  • çözmek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “çöj-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 400