demək

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic демәк
Roman demək
Perso-Arabic دئمک

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *de- (to say). Cognate with Turkish demek, Kazakh деу (dew), Chuvash те (te), etc.

Verb

demək

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to say, tell
    Qərblilər demişkən, zaman puldur.
    As the Westerners say, time is money
    Yəhya deyir ki, Məryam evdə yoxdur, halbuki onun evdən çıxmasını heç kim görməyib.
    John says that Mary is not at home, although no one has seen her coming out.
    O mənə haraya gedəcəyini demədi.
    S/he didn't tell me where s/he was going.
    Düzünü de!Tell the truth!
  2. (intransitive) to mean, to signify (used with the copulas -dir or deyil)
    Bu söz nə deməkdir?
    What does this word mean?
    "Cədid" sözü ərəbcə "yeni" deməkdir.
    The word "jadid" means "new" in Arabic.
    Bu ciddi bir məsələdir, amma bu o demək deyil ki, barəsində zarafat etmək olmaz.
    This is a serious matter, but it doesn't mean that one can't joke about it.

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