ölçmək

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ül-, *öl-č- (“measure; measure, measuring”), whence also Azerbaijani ülgü. Cognate with Turkish ölçmek (“to measure”), Chuvash виҫ (viś, “to measure”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [œlt͡ʃˈmæk], [œlt͡sˈmæk]
  • IPA(key): [œlt͡ʃˈmæj], [œlt͡sˈmæj]
  • (Tabriz) IPA(key): [œlt͡smɑχ], [œʃmɑχ]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ölç‧mək

Verb

ölçmək

  1. (transitive) to measure
    qızdırmanı ölçmək ― to measure the body temperature
    uzunluğu/qalınlığı ölçmək ― to measure the length/thickness
    xətkeşlə ölçmək ― to measure with a ruler
  2. (transitive) to measure off, to mete out
    parçanı ölçmək ― to measure the cloth
    Rusların bir deyimi var, deyir "Yeddi dəfə ölç, bir dəfə kəs."
    Russians have a saying, it goes: "Measure off seven times, cut off once".

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • ölçü (“measure, unit of measurement, size”)
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