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Where does “bakım” come from?

bakım (Turkish) comes from Turkish bak, from Turkish bakmak, from Ottoman Turkish باقمق, from Proto-Turkic *bak-.

bakım (Turkish): maintenance, requirement

Definitions

  1. maintenance, requirement

Ancestry of “bakım”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishbaksecond-person singular imperative of bakmak; look
2Turkishbakmakto look , gaze; to face, view, watch, have a...
3Ottoman Turkishباقمقto look; to look at
4Proto-Turkic*bak-—

Words derived from “bakım”

  • bakımsız
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