to test, to try on · to try, to attempt · to try one's hand
çekim: geçmiş essayé · ortaç essayé · şimdiki essaye · ulaç essayant
eş: faire en sorte, tenter
köken: Inherited from Middle French essayer, essaier, from Old French essaiier, essayer, essaier, from essay, essai (“attempt; assay; experiment”) + -er (“infinitive-forming suffix”), from Late Latin exagium (“weight; weighing, testing on the balance”), from Latin exigere + -ium, from ex- + agere, from Proto-Italic *agō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti.
Essayez cette chemise.
J'ai essayé d'apprendre le piano.
Des psychologues ont essayé d'analyser quels traits physiques étaient considérés comme attirants.
çekim: geçmiş oʻrganib · ortaç oʻrgangan · şimdiki oʻrganadi · ulaç oʻrganayotgan
köken: Inherited from Chagatai اورکانماک (örgänmäk), from Khorezmian Turkic اوکرانماک (ögränmäk), from Proto-Turkic *ögren- (“to get accustomed to; to learn”). Cognate with Turkish öğrenmek, see there for more cognates.
köken: From Middle Chinese 研究 (ngen *kiuᴴ?). Compare modern Hakka ngiên-kiu, Eastern Min ngiĕng-géu, Min Nan gián-kiù. The original on'yomi for the first character 研 was gen, more closely matching the Chinese origins. For reasons unknown, the reading shifted from gen to a kan'yō yomi of ken.
to test, to probe (to check the medical state of a patient or have one's own medical state checked) · to explore, to research, to study (to find out more about a given phenomenon or object through specific means) · to study, to probe (to examine with one's senses)
çekim: geçmiş badano · şimdiki bada
eş: analizować, studiować
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *besteider. Proto-Slavic *bosti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ā́ˀtei Proto-Slavic *-ati Proto-Slavic *bādàti Old Polish badać Polish badać Inherited from Old Polish badać. By surface analysis, bóść + -ać.
to attempt, to try; to test, to put to the test, to find out, to prove; therefore, to make trial of a person or thing · to experience, to go through, to observe, to suffer, to endure, to sustain, to witness · to do, fare
çekim: ortaç expertus · şimdiki experītur · ulaç experiēns
köken: From ex- + *perior (“try, dare, risk”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through”) (though De Vaan instead derives the root of the word from pariō (“to give birth to, bear”), from Proto-Indo-European *perh₃- (“to provide, produce”); compare also the etymologies of comperiō and reperiō, both meaning “to find out”).
Inherited from Middle Persian wcwstn (/wizōstan, wizōhīdan/, “to investigate, to examine”). The initial 'w' phoneme most likely first turned into 'b', which is a very common sound change from Middle Persian to New Persian (change of initial w- to either b- or gw- → g-). Afterwards, the 'b' turned into a 'p' phoneme, possibly due to the ambiguities of the Perso-Arabic script at the time, which…