Turkish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [jakmak]
  • Hyphenation: yak‧mak

Etymology 1 edit

From Ottoman Turkish یاقمق (yakmak, to burn), from Proto-Turkic *yak- (to burn).[1]

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (yak-, to burn), Chuvash ҫут (śut, to set on fire, light), Kazakh жағу (jağu, to burn), Kyrgyz жагуу (jaguu, to burn), Turkmen ýakmak (to burn), Uyghur ياقماق (yaqmaq, to kindle, light), Uzbek yoqmoq (to burn), Yakut сах (saq, to strike fire).

Verb edit

yakmak (third-person singular simple present yakar)

  1. (transitive) to light; to ignite; to set fire to, set on fire
  2. (transitive) to scorch, sear, burn
  3. (transitive) to burn down, incinerate
  4. (transitive) to turn on, light (electric lights)
  5. (transitive) to burn; to irritate, bite, scathe
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Etymology 2 edit

Akin to Karakhanid [script needed] (yak-, to come near, touch, smear on), Uyghur ياقماق (yaqmaq, to stick, adhere, smear on, apply to).

Verb edit

yakmak (third-person singular simple present yakar)

  1. (transitive) to apply to, smear on
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References edit

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