etmek

Meaning

  1. to do; to make
  2. to equal, make
  3. (transitive,with-ablative) to leave somebody deprived of something
  4. (auxiliary) Forms active verbs from adjectives and nouns, especially Arabic verbal nouns.

Frequency

A1
Hyphenated as
et‧mek
Pronounced as (IPA)
/etˈmec/
Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اتمك, ایتمك (etmek), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ēt-. Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰃𐱅 (ét-, “to make”), Azerbaijani etmək, Bashkir итеү (itew), Chuvash ту (tu), Crimean Tatar этмек (etmek), Karachay-Balkar этерге (eterge), Kazakh ету (etu), Khakas идерге (iderge), Kumyk этмек (etmek), Kyrgyz этүү (etüü), Nogai этуьв (étüv), Tatar итү (itü) (including siberian), Turkmen etmek, Uyghur ﺋﻪﺗﻤﻪﻙ (etmek, әтмәк), etc.

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