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durmak.

to stop

6 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

verb/duɾˈmɑk/

  1. to stop

    Yağmur durdu.

  2. to stand; to sit still; to remain

  3. to be (at a certain place)

    Daha şimdi burada duruyordu.

  4. to last; to continue to be, to keep being

  5. to look, to seem, to appear

    Bu elbise üzerimde çok güzel durmuyor mu?
    Portakallar bozuk duruyordu, ondan almadım.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طورمق (durmak), from Old Anatolian Turkish طورمق (durmaq), from Proto-Turkic *tur- (“to stand”). Cognate with Kazakh тұру (turuw), Turkmen durmak, Crimean Tatar turmaq, Uzbek turmoq, Uyghur تۇرماق (turmaq), Azerbaijani durmaq, Tatar toru, Chuvash тӑр (tăr), Gagauz durmaa.

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