övmek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اوگمك (öğmek, “to praise”), from Proto-Turkic *ög-mek, *ȫg-mek (“to praise”) .[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰇𐰏 (ög-, “to praise”), Karakhanid اۥوکْماكْ (ȫgmēk, “to praise”), Turkmen öwmek (“to compliment, praise”), Azerbaijani öymək (“to praise”), Tuvan өөрүүр (öörüür, “to rejoice”), Yakut үөр (üör, “to rejoice”).

Verb

övmek (third-person singular simple present över)

  1. (transitive) to compliment, praise, laud

Conjugation

Antonyms

Derived terms

  • övdük
  • övdürmek
  • öve
  • övebilmek
  • övecek
  • öveli
  • övememek
  • övesi
  • övme
  • övmemek
  • övmez
  • övmüş
  • övü
  • övücü
  • övülmek
  • övünç
  • övünmek
  • övüş

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ög-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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