diremek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish دیره‌مك (diremek)[1][2], akin to Old Uyghur [script needed] (tire-, to support, upright), from Proto-Turkic *tīre- (to support).[3]

Verb

diremek (third-person singular simple present direr)

  1. (transitive, dialectal) to put something in vertical position, support
  2. (intransitive) to resist, hold up, persist

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Kélékian, Diran (1911), دیره‌مك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 597
  2. Redhouse, James W. (1890), دیره‌مك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 935
  3. 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: “*t`ī́ri”
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