inmek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اینمك‎ (enmek), from Proto-Turkic *ēn- (“to go down”). Cognate to Old Turkic 𐰤‎ (en, “to go down, descend”) [1].

Verb

inmek (third-person singular simple present iner)

  1. (intransitive) to go down, come down, descend
    Adıçıkmışdokuza, inmezsekize. ― Give a dog a bad name and hang him (proverb; literally His/her/their name has climbed to nine; it won't come down to eight.)
  2. (intransitive) to get off (an airplane, bus, ship, train); to get out of (a car); to dismount (from a horse)
    Atından indi. ― He/she dismounted from his/her horse.
  3. (intransitive) to land (at)
    Uçakhavaalanına indi. ― The airplane landed at the airport.
  4. (intransitive) to recede, diminish, decrease, die down

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • alçalmak

Antonyms

Derived terms

References

  1. 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: “*ŋḗni”
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