to light, to set alight (a candle, a fire, a cigar) · to turn on (the light, a lightbulb, the television, the heating) · to start, to turn on (electronic devices with screens)
çekim: geçmiş allumé · ortaç allumé · şimdiki allume · ulaç allumant
eş: brûler, éclairer
zıt: éteindre, s'éteindre
köken: Inherited from Old French alumer, from Early Medieval Latin allūmināre. Compare Occitan alumar.
köken: From Middle Persian ʾplwhtn' (abrōxtan, “to light, kindle, illuminate, polish”), is a compound verb, so the elements are *af- from Proto-Iranian *Hápa (“off, away, from”) or Proto-Indo-European *upó (“under, below, towards”) + *rōx- from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright, to shine, to see”).
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köken: From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (alav), a derivation from Proto-Turkic *yal- (“to burn, blaze; flame”). Cognate with Turkish alev, Uzbek olov, Kazakh алау (alau).
köken: From *yalqïn (“flame”), from Proto-Turkic *yal- (“to catch fire; burn”). Cognate with Tatar ялкын (yalqın, “flame”), Kazakh жалқын (jalqyn, “flame”), Southern Altai јалкын (ǰalkïn, “lightning, flame”), Uzbek yolqin (“flame”), Uyghur يالقۇن (yalqun, “flame”). Note that there is a parallel form *yalïn (“flame”), attested in many Turkic languages - it should be kept separate.
to ignite, to set alight, to set on fire, to light up · to catch fire · to light, to switch on, to turn on (to activate a light)
çekim: geçmiş άναψα · ortaç έχοντας ανάψει · şimdiki ανάβει · ulaç ανάβοντας
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek ἀνάβω (anábō), from Ancient Greek ἀνάπτω (anáptō) with -πτω > -βω based on the common aorist stem αναψ- in the pattern σκάπτω (skáptō) - aorist ἔσκαψα (éskapsa) > έσκαψα (éskapsa) - σκάβω (skávo, “dig”)
köken: Of native Korean origin. From 불 (bul, “fire”) + -ㅅ- (-s-, genitive interfix; omitted from the spelling, but this causes the tense phonation of the following consonant) + 길 (gil, “way, path”).
to light, to light up, to ignite (cause to burn: cigarette, flame, furnace, match, stove, torch etc.) · to turn on (:light source) · to fire up (excite or inspire: person)
flame, fire · a fire or flame (of love or passion), love, passion, desire, heat, fury
çekim: çoğul flammae · tamlayan flammae
köken: From Proto-Italic *flagmā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥-g-mh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥g- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Compare flagrō (“to blaze”) and fulgō (“to flash, shine”) from the same root, as well as Ancient Greek φλογμός (phlogmós, “flame”).