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bölmək

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See also: bölmek

Azerbaijani

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Etymology

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From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (böl-, to separate), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bȫl- (to divide, separate, distinguish[1]).[2] Cognate with Turkish bölmek, etc.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bœlˈmæk/
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  • Hyphenation: böl‧mək

Verb

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bölmək

  1. (transitive) to divide, split
    Onlar pulunu öz aralarında bölüblər
    They split the money among themselves.
    O demişdir ki, məqsədləri ölkəni bölmək və dövləti çökdürmək idi.
    He said that their goal was to divide the country and destroy the state.
  2. (transitive, arithmetic) to divide
    yüzü beşə bölməkto divide hundred by five
  3. (transitive) distribute, lay out

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “böl-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 332
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bȫl-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill