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etmek.

to do; to make

5 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

verb/etˈmec/
  1. to do; to make

  2. to equal, make

    Sonunda Parti iki ile ikinin beş ettiğini anons eder, senin de buna inanman gerekir.
  3. to leave somebody deprived of something

    transitive · with-ablative
  4. Forms active verbs from adjectives and nouns, especially Arabic verbal nouns.

    auxiliary
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اتمك, ایتمك (etmek), from Old Anatolian Turkish ایتمك (ẹtmek), from Proto-Turkic *ẹt-. cognates Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰃𐱅 (ét-, “to make”), Azerbaijani etmək, Bashkir итеү (itew), Crimean Tatar этмек (etmek), Karachay-Balkar этерге (eterge), Kazakh ету (etüw), Khakas идерге (iderge), Kumyk этмек (etmek), Kyrgyz этүү (etüü), Nogai этуьв (étüv), Tatar итү (itü), Turkmen etmek, Uyghur ﺋﻪﺗﻤﻪﻙ, etc.

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