kıskanmak
Meaning
- (transitive) to be jealous of something or someone, envy
- (transitive) to grudge, begrudge
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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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