tütmek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish توتمك (tütmek, to give out smoke), from Proto-Turkic *tüt(e)- (to smoke).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tüt(e)-, to smoke), Bashkir төтәү (tötəw, to smoke), Kazakh түтеу (tüteu, to smoke), Khakas тӱдирге (tüdirge, to smoke), Kyrgyz түтөө (tütöö, to smoke), Turkmen tütemek (to smoke, steam).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tyt.mec]

Verb

tütmek (third-person singular simple present tüter)

  1. (intransitive) to smoke, give off smoke
  2. (intransitive) (for smoke) to rise
  3. (intransitive, dialectal) to smell (good or bad)

Conjugation

Derived terms

See also

  • duman
  • burnunda tütmek: (to fume ine one's nose; to long (for), to pine (for), to miss)

References

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