ermek
Meaning
- to attain, achieve
- to reach, be long enough to reach
- to ripen, become ripe, mature
- to attain sainthood, to be spiritually enlightened, to reach spiritual perfection
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈæɾ.mec/
Etymology
In summary
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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