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TURKISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

ermek.

to attain, achieve

5 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

verb[æɾˈmec]
  1. to attain, achieve

  2. to reach, be long enough to reach

  3. to ripen, become ripe, mature

  4. to attain sainthood, to be spiritually enlightened, to reach spiritual perfection

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ایرمك (ermek, “to attain, reach, mature”), from Proto-Turkic *ẹ̄r- (“to reach”). cognates Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (er-, “to reach”) and [script needed] (ert-, “to pass”), Azerbaijani ermək, and Khalaj [script needed] (ẹ̄̂r-, “to reach”). Possibly cognate with Hungarian ér (“to reach”), thought to be a Turkic borrowing, and, according to Nişanyan, Old Turkic [script needed] (er-, “to be”). See more at imek.

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