ötmek

From Proto-Turkic *et-mek (“bread”). Cognate with Turkish ekmek.

ötmek

1. bread

   beyaz ötmek ― white bread

From Proto-Turkic *öt-. Compare Turkish ötmek below.

ötmek

1. to sound (about booming sounds)
2. to sing (only about birds)

• “ötmek”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوتمك (ütmek, “to resound, ring, echo, to sing; crow”), from Proto-Turkic *öt- (“to sing (of birds), say, ask”).^[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (öt-, “(of animals) to sing, make noise”), [script needed] (ötün-, “to ask, request”), Chagatai [script needed] (ötmek, “to say”), Chuvash авӑтма (avătma, “to sing”), Turkmen ötünmek (“to apologise”), Yakut эт (et, “to say”).

• IPA^(key): /œtˈmec/
• Hyphenation: öt‧mek

ötmek (third-person singular simple present öter)

1. (intransitive) (of a bird) to sing; (of a cock) to crow

   Bir çöplükte iki horoz ötmez. ― Two roosters won't crow in the same dump. (A similar proverb to “If two ride on a horse, one must ride behind.”)

2. (intransitive) (of a horn, a whistle) to blow, toot, hoot
3. (intransitive) to chatter noisily, gab, babble
4. (transitive, slang) to let the cat out of the bag, to spill the beans, to snitch

• şakımak

• “ötmek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ötmek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “ötmek”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı