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okumak.

to read

6 characters3 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

verb/o.kuˈmak/

  1. to read

    transitive

  2. to study, peruse

    transitive

  3. to sing; to chant, recite

    transitive

  4. to announce

    transitive

  5. to decipher

    transitive

  6. to study, attend school

    intransitive
    Üniversitede okuyor.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوقومق (okumak, “to read, decipher, study, learn, recite, chant, sing”), from Old Anatolian Turkish اوقمق (oqımaq, “to read”), from Proto-Turkic *okï- (“to call, read, recite”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (okı-, “to read, call”), Azerbaijani oxumaq (“to read, sing”), Bashkir уҡыу (uqıw, “to read”), Kazakh оқу (oquw, “to read, recite”), Kyrgyz окуу (okuu, “to read, study”), Turkmen okamak (“to read, study”), Uzbek oʻqimoq (“to learn, study, read”), Yakut угуй (uguy, “to call”).

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