durmaq

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic дурмаг
Perso-Arabic دورماق

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tur- (to stand) [1] Cognate with Turkish durmak, Turkmen durmak, Crimean Tatar turmaq, Uzbek turmoq, Uyghur تۇرماق (turmaq), Kazakh тұру (tūru), Tatar turu, Chuvash тӑр (tăr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [durˈmɑχ]
  • Hyphenation: dur‧maq
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Verb

durmaq (intransitive)

  1. to stand
    • 1937, Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, Vasvası :
      Yanı uşaqlı bir rus qadını durmuşdu.
      A Russian woman with children was standing next to him.
    Bütün günü ayaq üstə durmuşam, çox yorğunamI've been standing up all day, I'm very tired.
    Növbədə durmaqTo stand in the queue
    Synonym: dayanmaq
  2. to stand up, get up
    Səhər tezdən durmaq.To get up early in the morning.
    Avtobusa minəndə cavanlar durub mənə yer verirlər, deyəsən qocalmışam.
    When I get onto the bus, young people stand up and give up their seats to me, it seems I've become old.
    Synonym: qalxmaq
  3. to stop, halt
    • 1959, Anar, Hekayə[]:
      Trolleybus gəlib dayanacağında durdu.
      The trolley bus arrived to the stop and halted.
    Synonym: dayanmaq
  4. (imperative only) to wait
  5. to be still
    • 1937, Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, Vasvası :
      Ağacların budaqları darvazanın tağının üzərindən sallanaraq sakit durmuşdu.
      The branches of the tree were hanging over the gate arch and being still.
    Synonym: tərpənməmək
  6. to be alive, to be around
    Synonyms: sağ olmaq, həyatda olmaq
    Qoca kişi hələ də durur.The old man still lives.
  7. (vulgar) to become erect

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • duruş (stance)
  • durğun (still, tranquil)
  • durum (standing point)

References

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