solmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صولمق (solmak, to fade, wither, droop), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (sol-, to wilt, wither), from Proto-Turkic *sol- (to wilt, wither).

Verb

solmak (third-person singular simple present solar)

  1. (intransitive) to get pale; to fade
  2. (intransitive, of flowers) to wilt, droop, die

Conjugation

References

  • Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *sol-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972), “soluş-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 828
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