to oblige someone, make someone promise · to commit, to oblige · to oblige, to swear, to be sworn
çekim: geçmiş verpflichtete · ortaç verpflichtet · şimdiki verpflichtet · ulaç verpflichtend
zıt: entpflichten
köken: From Middle High German verphlichten. Cognate with Dutch verplichten. Equivalent to ver- + pflichten. Also analysable as ver- + Pflicht (“duty”) + -en.
to oblige; to force; to compel; to coerce (tell someone to do something against their wills, often by using threats of violence) · to induce an action by leaving no other choices
çekim: geçmiş obriguei · ortaç obrigado · şimdiki obriga
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese obrigar, from Latin obligāre, probably taken as a semi-learned term.
to oblige, force, obligate, compel · to oblige, indebt, cause someone to owe a favour
çekim: geçmiş υποχρέωσα · ortaç έχοντας υποχρεώσει · şimdiki υποχρεώνει · ulaç υποχρεώνοντας
eş: αναγκάζω
köken: Verb formed from the adjective υπόχρεος (ypóchreos) (from Ancient Greek ὑπόχρεος (hupókhreos, “indebted”), from υπο- (upo-) + χρέος (khréos)), + -ώνω (suffix for verbs). For sense "oblige", calque of French obliger.
Ο νόμος μας υποχρεώνει να τον φυλακίσουμε.
Με βοήθησε τόσο πολύ! Έχω υποχρεωθεί σ’ αυτόν τον καλό άνθρωπο!
köken: Compound of 義務 (gimu, “duty, obligation”) + 付ける (tsukeru, “to stick something to something else”). The tsukeru changes to zukeru as an instance of rendaku (連濁).