iğrenmek

See also: igrenmek

Turkish

Etymology

Akin to Old Turkic [script needed] (yigren-, “to be disgusted, abhor”), maybe from Old Turkic [script needed] (yīg, “raw, uncooked (meat)”)[1], from Proto-Turkic *yigre- (“to hate, abhor”)[2]. See çiğ.

Verb

iğrenmek (third-person singular simple present iğrenir)

  1. (intransitive, + ablative case) to feel disgust (at), be disgusted (with); to loathe, abhor, hate
    Örümceklerden iğrenirim. ― I hate spiders.

Conjugation

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • iğrenç
  • iğrenme
  • iğrendirmek
  • iğrenilmek

References

  1. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “iğrenmek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill: “*ĺḕgì”
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