to acknowledge, confess · to see, to make out, to discern · to have sex, to know, have carnal knowledge
çekim: geçmiş bekenden · ortaç bekend · şimdiki bekent · ulaç bekennend
köken: From Middle Dutch bekennen, from Old Dutch bikennen, from Proto-West Germanic *bikannijan. Equivalent to be- + kennen. Cognates include German bekennen, and English and Scots beken.
to recognise (UK), recognize (US): · to acknowledge, admit
çekim: geçmiş αναγνώρισα · ortaç έχοντας αναγνωρίσει · şimdiki αναγνωρίζει · ulaç αναγνωρίζοντας
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀναγνωρίζω (anagnōrízō). From the sense "admit" Semantic loan from French reconnaître. Morphologically, from ανα- (ana-, “repeated”) + γνωρίζω (gnorízo, “know”).
to accept, admit, to approve, to allow · to recognize · to acknowledge
çekim: geçmiş 認めた
eş: 諾う
zıt: 否む, 拒む, 打ち消す
köken: Thought to be from 見(み) (mi, “seeing, looking”, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 見(み)る (miru, “to see, to look”)) + 留(と)める (tomeru, “to hold, to keep, to remain”), possibly with semantics like “to keep one's vision on” → “to recognize, to acknowledge, to observe”.
çekim: geçmiş bekände · ortaç bekänd · ulaç bekännande
köken: From Old Swedish bekænna, from Middle Low German bekennen. Equivalent of be- + känna. Cognate with Danish bekende, Norwegian Bokmål bekjenne, German bekennen and Dutch bekennen.
to accept, approve of, agree with (consider something acceptable) · to approve the nomination (of) · to admit (allow to enjoy a privilege, especially to enter a course or an educational institution)
çekim: geçmiş hyväksynyt · şimdiki hyväksyy · ulaç hyväksyvä
köken: hyvä (“good”) + -ksua (sensive verb); "to consider good", "to feel [something is] good", compare Swedish godkänna.
to confess, admit · to acknowledge, own · to show, indicate
çekim: ortaç fassus · şimdiki fatētur · ulaç fatēns
köken: From Proto-Italic *fatēōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”); the stem fat- seemingly comes from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂-tó-s (“spoken”) (cognate with Ancient Greek φᾰτός (phătós)) or Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂-t- (“who speaks”). Related to Latin for (“to speak, to say”), Latin fātum (“fate”), Latin fāma (“fame, reputation”), Ancient Greek φήμη (phḗmē, “talk”).