kokmak

From Ottoman Turkish قوقمق (kokmak, “to have a smell, stink, spoil”), from Proto-Turkic *Kok- (“to smell badly, to give out a smell of burning”).[1]

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (kok-, “to smell (intr.)”), Azerbaijani qoxumaq (“to putrefy, go bad”), Turkmen kokamak (“to stink”).

• IPA^(key): /kok.ˈmɑk/
• Hyphenation: kok‧mak

kokmak (third-person singular simple present kokar)

1. (intransitive) to have a bad smell; stink, reek, pong

   Burası kokuyor. ― This place stinks.

2. (intransitive, copulative) Followed by gibi if descriptive: to smell, to have the smell of

   Bu çiçek çok güzel kokuyor. ― This flower smells so good.

   Burası leş gibi kokuyor. ― This place smells like a dead body.

3. (intransitive) to show signs of, reek of, be redolent with
4. (transitive, rare) to smell, to sniff, to check the smell of

   Synonym: koklamak

   Şunu kok bakayım bi', kokuyo' mu. ― Hey, smell this and tell me if it stinks.

• kokma
• kokuş
• koku
• kokarca
• kokuşmak
• kokutmak
• koklamak
• kokamamak
• kokabilmek

• koklamak