gelmek

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish گلمك (gelmek, “to come”), from Old Anatolian Turkish كلمك (gelmek), from Proto-Turkic *kẹl- (“to come”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰚𐰠 (kel-, “to come”), Karakhanid کَلْماكْ (kelmēk, “to come”).

• IPA^(key): /ɟelˈmec/

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• Hyphenation: gel‧mek

gelmek (third-person singular simple present gelir)

1. (intransitive) to come, move closer

   Antonym: gitmek

   eve gelmek ― to come home

2. (intransitive) to come, to appear, to manifest

   Synonyms: belirmek, peyda olmak

   ağzına geleni söylemek ― to say whatever crosses one's mind

3. (intransitive) to weigh (have a certain weight)
4. (intransitive, impersonal) to seem, to appear [with dative]

   bana çok soğuk geldi ― it is too cold for me

   bana öyle geliyor ki ... ― it seems to me that ...

   ... gibi geliyor ― it seems like ...

   ... gibime geliyor ― it seems to me like ...

5. (intransitive, with -den) to pretend

   bir şeyi duymazlıktan gelmek ― pretend not to hear something

   bir şeyi görmezlikten gelmek ― pretend not to see something

6. (impersonal) to feel like doing something [with -ası and possessive]

   Hiç gidesim gelmiyor. ― I do not feel like going at all.

   Yapasın gelmiyor mu? Ah, ne yazık, hadi artık. ― You don't feel like doing it? Oh, how tragic, c'mon, let's go.

7. (intransitive) to visit, to come over

   bize geldiler ― they visited us

8. (intransitive) to come off; to escape or get off, to come out of a situation without significant harm.

   galip gelmek ― to come off victorious

   birinci gelmek ― to come off first

9. (intransitive) to come off, to come across, to feel like, to seem like

   tatsız geldi ― it came off unpleasant

   dar gelmek ― to come off tight

   garip gelmek ― to come across weird

10. (intransitive, of feelings or needs) to arise, to become apparent

    uykusu gelmek ― to feel sleepy (literally, “for one's sleep to come”)

    çişi gelmek ― to need to pee (literally, “for one's piss to come”)

    kakası gelmek ― to need to poop (literally, “for one's poop to come”)

    tıraşı gelmek ― to need to shave (literally, “for one's shaving to come”)

11. (slang) to come, to ejaculate

    Synonym: boşalmak

• “gelmek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “gelmek”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gelmek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

From Proto-Turkic *kẹl-mek (“to come”).

gelmek

1. to come