bilmək

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic билмәк
Abjad بیلمک

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bil- (to know)[1] Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰠 (b²il² /⁠bil-⁠/, to know), Turkish bilmek, Crimean Tatar bilmek, Uzbek bilmoq (to know). Kazakh білу (bılu, to know), Tatar белү (belü)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bilˈmæk], [bilˈmæj]
  • (Absheron) IPA(key): [bilˈmej]
  • (Tabriz) IPA(key): [bilˈmɑχ], [bylˈmɑχ][2]
  • Hyphenation: bil‧mək
  • (file)

Verb

bilmək

  1. (transitive) to know
    Çox yaşayan çox bilməz, çox yer gəzən çox bilər
    It's not necessarily the person who has lived a long time that knows a lot, but rather the one who has been to many places.
    (literally, “One who lives long won't know a lot, one who travels many places will know.”)
  2. (transitive) to be able
    • 1906, Sultan Mejid Qanizade, Allah xofu :
      Muzdur Məşədi Əsgər rusca danışmaq bilmirdi.
      Farmworker Məşədi Əsgər couldn't speak Russian.
  3. (transitive) to consider, view
    • 1911, Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, Zeynal Bəy :
      Pоlis məmurları şəhərin zahir görünüşünü bir təhər qaydaya salmağa var qüvvələrini sərf еtmişdilər və indi də şəhərin halını qubеrnatоra rövnəqli surətdə göstərməyi hər kəs özünə müqəddəs bir vəzifə bilirdi.
      Police authorities made every effort to put the appearance of the city in order and everyone considered it to be their holy duty to show to the governor the condition of the city in magnificent light now.
  4. (intransitive) to falsely assume, to mistakenly believe something (only when used with elə).
    Mən elə bilirdim ki biz artıq evdəyikI thought we were already home [though we were not].

Usage notes

  • Bilmək is never used in the sense 'to know someone'; the verb used in the latter sense is instead tanımaq.

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bil-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. Haneda, Koichi (2009—2010) “bilmək”, in لغات لهجه‌ی تبریز [Vocabulary of Tabrizi Dialect] (in Persian), Tabriz: یاران, →ISBN, page 94

Khalaj

Perso-Arabic بیلمَک

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bil- (to know).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bilˈmæk], [bi̞lˈmæk], [bɪlˈmæk], [bʏ̜lˈmæk], [bʏlˈmæk], [bʊlˈmæk]
  • (Xarrâbî) IPA(key): [bɪlˈmæk]

Verb

bilmək (third-person singular aorist bilür, second person singular imperative bili)

  1. to know
  2. to understand, to comprehend
  3. to learn
  4. to be able, to can

Conjugation

References

  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1980) Wörterbuch des Chaladsch (Dialekt von Charrab) [Khalaj dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1988) Grammatik des Chaladsch [Grammar of Khalaj] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, →OCLC
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