okumak

Meaning

1. (transitive) to read
2. (transitive) to study, peruse
3. (transitive) to sing; to chant, recite
4. (transitive) to announce
5. (transitive) to decipher
6. (intransitive) to study, attend school

Hyphenated as

o‧ku‧mak

Pronounced as (IPA)

/okuˈmak/

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اوقومق (okumak, “to read, decipher, study, learn, recite, chant, sing”), from Proto-Turkic *okï- (“to call, read, recite”).
Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (okı-, “to read, call”), Azerbaijani oxumaq (“to read, sing”), Bashkir уҡыу (uqıw, “to read”), Kazakh оқу (oqu, “to read, recite”), Kyrgyz окуу (okuu, “to read, study”), Turkmen okamak (“to read, study”), Uzbek oʻqimoq (“to learn, study, read”), Yakut угуй (uguy, “to call”).