yapışmak

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Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish یاپشمق (yapışmak, to stick, adhere), from Old Anatolian Turkish [Term?], from Proto-Oghuz [Term?] (compare Azerbaijani yapışmaq (to stick, adhere), Turkmen ýapyşmak (to stick)), from Proto-Common Turkic (compare Old Turkic [script needed] (yap-, to glue (tr.))/[script needed] (yapış-, to adhere, stick (intr.)), Bashkir йәбешеү (yəbeşew, to stick), Kazakh жабысу (jabysu, to cling), Kyrgyz жабышуу (jabışuu, to adhere), Uzbek yopishmoq (to adhere), Tuvan чыпшыр (çıpşır, to stick), Yakut сыһын (sıhın, to stick to) and сибээ (sibee, to smear)), from Proto-Turkic *yạpïĺč- (to glue, stick to) (compare Chuvash сыпӑҫ (syp̬ăś, to adhere)).[1]

Verb[edit]

yapışmak (third-person singular simple present yapışır)

  1. (intransitive) to stick (to), adhere (to); to cling to
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) to cling to (someone) like a leech, latch onto (someone) like a leech

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References[edit]

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