دكه‌مك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دَكَمَكْ (däŋämäk, “to compare, measure; to try”), from Proto-Turkic *teŋe- (“to value, compare”),[1] a derivation from *teŋ (“equal”), whence دنك (denk, “equal”). Cognate with Azerbaijani dənəmək.

Verb

دكه‌مك • (deñemek)

  1. (transitive) to try, try out, test, put to the test, to scrutinize, explore, or evaluate by testing or experimentation
    Synonym: صینامق (sınamak)
  2. (transitive) to try, attempt, endeavour, fand, to seek to do a thing, to make an attempt or effort to do something
    Synonym: قالقشمق (kalkışmak)

Derived terms

  • دكه‌دلمك (deñedilmek, “to be made or let be tried”)
  • دكه‌لمك (deñelmek, “to be put to test”)
  • كوچنی دكه‌مك (güçünü deñemek, “to test the resistance”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: denemek
  • → Armenian: տէնէմիշ (tēnēmiš)

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “teŋe:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 516

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