kıskanmak

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to be jealous of something or someone, envy
  2. (transitive) to grudge, begrudge

Synonyms

çekememek

pintilik etmek

kısmırlanmak

Translations

Etymology

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish قیصقانمق (kıskanmak), قزقانمق (kızkanmak, “to be jealous or envious”), derived from Proto-Turkic *Kɨŕ (“expensive, miserly”). Compare Karakhanid [script needed] (kız, “rare, expensive”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (kızɣan-, “to grudge, be unwilling to give”), Azerbaijani qısqanmaq (“to be jealous”), Chuvash хӗрхенме (hĕrh̬enme, “to grudge, begrudge”), Kyrgyz кызгануу (kızganuu, “to be jealous”), Uzbek qizgʻanmoq (“to be jealous”).

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