to read (to look at and understand symbols, words, or data) · to read (to give off a certain impression while being read; of a text) · to select and gather or harvest (grapes, etc.)
çekim: geçmiş las · ortaç gelesen · şimdiki liest · ulaç lesend
köken: From Middle High German lësen, from Old High German lësan, from Proto-West Germanic *lesan, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną (“to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *les- (“to gather”). Cognate with English lease (“to gather”) [with an obsolete meaning], cognate with Low German lesen (“to read”), Dutch lezen (“to read”), Afrikaans lees (“to read”).
çekim: geçmiş איך האָב געלייענט · ortaç געלייענט · ulaç לייענענדיק
köken: An expansion of earlier *לייען (*leyen) (still attested in Alsace as [ˈlaːjə], [(ɡə)ˈlaːɪ̯t]) + ־ען (-en), from a Romance language, from Latin legere (“to read”). The precise donor language is uncertain. Old French, the likeliest candidate by default, offers phonetic difficulties, but perhaps from leire, early byform of lire. Northern Italian forms like Friulian lei have been invoked…