yapmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish یاپمق‎ (yapmak, “to do, make, arrange”), from Proto-Turkic *yap- (“to make, create, arrange”).[1] Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (yapmāq, “to build”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (yap-, “to make”).

Verb

yapmak (third-person singular simple present yapar)

  1. (transitive) to make; to build, construct, fashion; to create; to manufacture; to produce; to prepare
    Sana kek yaptım. ― I made you a cake.
  2. (transitive) to do; to busy oneself with, act, behave
    Ödevini yaptın mı? ― Did you do your homework?
  3. (transitive) to repair, fix
    Babam bozuk lambayı yaptı. ― My father fixed the defective lamp.
  4. (intransitive, with dative case) to defecate

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References

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

Further reading

  • yapmak in Reverso (Turkish-English)
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