bitirmek

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بترمك (bitirmek, to finish, to complete),[1] from Ottoman Turkish بتمك (bitmek, to terminate, to come to an end), from Proto-Turkic *büt- (to end),[2][3] morphologically bit- + -ir + -mek.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bi.tiɾˈmec/
  • Hyphenation: bi‧tir‧mek

Verb

bitirmek (third-person singular simple present bitirir)

  1. (transitive) causative of bitmek: to finish, to complete
    Ödevimi bitirdim.I finished my homework.

Conjugation

References

  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بترمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 339
  2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*büt-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bit-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

  • bitirmek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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