kokmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قوقمق‎ (kokmak, “to have a smell, stink, spoil”), from Proto-Turkic *Kok- (“to smell badly, to give out a smell of burning”).[1]

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (kok-, “to smell (intr.)”), Azerbaijani qoxumaq (“to putrefy, go bad”), Turkmen kokamak (“to stink”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kok.ˈmɑk/
  • Hyphenation: kok‧mak

Verb

kokmak (third-person singular simple present kokar)

  1. (intransitive) to have a bad smell; stink, reek, pong
    Burası kokuyor. ― This place stinks.
  2. (intransitive, copulative) Followed by gibi if descriptive: to smell, to have the smell of
    Bu çiçek çok güzel kokuyor. ― This flower smells so good.
    Burası leş gibi kokuyor. ― This place smells like a dead body.
  3. (intransitive) to show signs of, reek of, be redolent with
  4. (transitive, rare) to smell, to sniff, to check the smell of
    Synonym: koklamak
    Şunu kok bakayım bi, kokuyo mu. ― Hey, smell this and tell me if it stinks.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • kokma
  • kokuş
  • koku
  • kokarca
  • kokuşmak
  • kokutmak
  • kokmamak
  • kokamamak
  • kokabilmek

See also

References

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