to turn out well, to work out, to go smoothly, to succeed, to come off
çekim: geçmiş gelang · ortaç gelungen · şimdiki gelingt · ulaç gelingend
eş: geraten, glücken, klappen
zıt: misslingen
köken: From Middle High German gelingen, from Old High German gilingan, a prefixed form of lingan, from Proto-West Germanic *lingwan. Compare Yiddish געלינגען (gelingen).
Deine Stunden, Augenblicke
Während sie über die Brücke ging, glitt sie aus, doch es gelang ihr, sich aufzufangen.
çekim: geçmiş cuajé · ortaç cuajado · şimdiki cuaja
eş: abomaso
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish quajar, from Vulgar Latin *coaglāre/ *quaglāre, from syncopation of Latin coāgulāre. Doublet of coagular, a borrowing. Compare Aragonese cuallar, Asturian cuayar, Catalan quallar, Galician callar, French cailler.
çekim: geçmiş alınmış · ortaç alınmış · şimdiki alınır
köken: almaq (“to buy”) + -ın (“[passive suffix]”). The sense 'to succeed, to work out' is likely a semantic loan from Russian получи́ться (polučítʹsja)/получа́ться (polučátʹsja).
function; to be in action · work; to function correctly · work out; to succeed
çekim: geçmiş fungerade · ortaç fungerande · ulaç fungerande
eş: funka
köken: From German fungieren, from Latin fungī (“to perform, execute”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (“to enjoy”). Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål fungere, Norwegian Nynorsk fungere, fungera, Danish fungere, Dutch fungeren, English function, fungible, Czech fungovat, Slovak fungovať, Italian fungere, Spanish fungir, French fonctionner.
to serve, act, work · to act, take action · to work, function, run, operate (to act as intended, to be in action)
çekim: geçmiş toiminut · şimdiki toimii · ulaç toimiva
köken: toimi (“act, action”) + -ia. Coined by Finnish journalist, poet and translator Paavo Tikkanen in 1847, originally probably in the sense “to serve, act, work as”.