yürümek

• yörümek (dialectal)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یورمك (yürümek, yürimek, “to walk, advance”), from Old Anatolian Turkish یورمك (yörimek), یورمق (yorımaq), from Proto-Turkic *yorï-, *yöri- (“to walk”).

In Turkish, Old Turkic and different Turkic dialects; the verb was attested in different forms alternating between back or front vowels such as yorı-, yöri-, yüri- . Clauson regards all forms together, but notes that yorı- is attested earlier. Altaicists compare to Evenki дурэми (durəmi, “to walk, wander”), Japanese 寄る (yoru, “to come up, come near”), Mongolian дүрвэх (dürvex, “to flee, run away in fear”),^[1] but the Altaic theory is now widely discredited.

Cognate with Old Turkic -𐰘𐰇𐰼𐰃 (yüri-)/-𐰖𐰆𐰺𐰃 (yorı-, “to walk”), Azerbaijani yerimək and yürümək (“to walk, go”), Bashkir йөрөү (yöröw), Crimean Tatar yürmek (“to walk, go”), Chuvash ҫӳреме (śüreme, “to walk, wander”), Kazakh жүру (jüru, “to go, move”), Kyrgyz жүрүү (jürüü, “to go, move, run”), Turkmen ýöremek (“to walk, go, advance”), Tuvan чоруур (çoruur, “to go”), Uyghur يۈرمەك (yürmek, “to move, walk”), Uzbek yurmoq (“to walk, go”), Gagauz örümää, Yakut сырыт (sırıt, “to go”) (caus. < *yorı-t). Also compare Mongolian зорчих (zorčix, “to go, ride, travel”), a Turkic borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /jy.ɾyˈmec/
• Hyphenation: yü‧rü‧mek

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yürümek (third-person singular simple present yürür)

1. (intransitive) to walk

   Yağmurda yalnız yürümeyi severim. ― I like walking alone under the rain.

2. (intransitive) to march, move forward, go forward, go on, advance
3. (intransitive) to move towards a certain direction

   asteroit Dünyaya doğru yürüyor ― the asteroid is moving towards the Earth

4. (intransitive) to make haste, hurry, go quickly
5. (intransitive) to function, work, run

   Synonyms: çalışmak, işlemek

   işler iyi yürüyor ― things are working fine

6. (transitive, informal, slang) to flirt with someone

   sence o çocuk bana yürüyor mu? ― do you think that guy is flirting with me?

7. (transitive) to attack

   Synonyms: hücum etmek, saldırmak

8. (intransitive) to rally, to march in protest

   asgari ücretin artması için yürüdüler ― they rallied for an increase in the minimum wage

9. (intransitive) to continue, to move on
10. (slang, intransitive) to die

    Synonym: ölmek

11. (intransitive) to build up

• dolaşmak
• gezmek

• “yürümek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “yürümek”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yürümek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• “yürümek”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982