işitmek

Meaning

  1. (stative, transitive) to hear, to perceive sounds through the ear.
  2. (transitive) to hear, to receive news, to learn an occurrence
  3. (transitive) to listen
  4. (transitive) to be subjected to beratement

Etymology

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish ایشیتمك (işitmek, “to hear”), from Old Anatolian Turkish اشتمك (ẹşitmek), from Proto-Turkic *ẹĺit- (“to hear”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐱁𐱅 (eşit-, “to hear, listen”), Azerbaijani eşitmək (“to hear”), Bashkir ишетеү (işetew, “to hear”), Chuvash илт (ilt, “to hear”), Kazakh есту (estu, “to hear”), Khakas истерге (isterge, “to hear”), Turkmen eşitmek (“to hear”), Uzbek eshitmoq (“to hear”), Yakut иһит (ihit, “to hear”), Gagauz işitmää.

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