tanımaq

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic танымаг
Roman tanımaq
Perso-Arabic تانیماق‎

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tạnu- (“to know, get to know”)[1] Cognate to Turkish tanımak, Kazakh тану (tanw),Kyrgyz тануу (tanuu), Chuvash тынă (tynă, “eyewitness”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tɑnɯˈmɑχ]
  • Hyphenation: ta‧nı‧maq

Verb

tanımaq

  1. (transitive) to know (a person)
    Sən onu çoxdandan tanıyırsan? ― Have you known him/her for a long time?
    Hə, amma sözün düzü o qədər yaxından tanımıram? ― Yes, but to be honest, I don't know him/her that well (lit. 'closely')
  2. to be familiar with a place, to find one's way
    Mən buranı yaxşı tanımıram. Gəl naviqatoru yandıraq! ― I don't know this area very well, let's turn on the GPS
  3. (transitive) to recognize
    Dostum o qədər arıqlayıb ki, onu görəndə tanımadım ― My friend has lost so much weight, that I didn't recognize him when I saw him.
  4. (transitive, by extension) to acknowledge, to recognize
    Təzə qurulan dövləti hələ heç kim tanımadı ― No one has recognized the newly created state yet.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • tanış (“acquintance”)
  • tanışıq (“familiar”)
  • tanıtmaq (“to introduce; to make acknowledged”)

References

  1. ↑ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*tạnu-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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