to confess, to avow, to profess (a belief, feeling, guilt, adherence to something) · to pledge oneself (to), to commit (to), to declare one's affiliation (with), to take a stand (on) · to claim responsibility (for)
çekim: geçmiş bekannte · ortaç bekannt · şimdiki bekennt · ulaç bekennend
eş: gestehen, zugeben, Zeugnis ablegen
köken: From Middle High German bekennen, from Old High German bikennen, from Proto-West Germanic *bikannijan. Equivalent to be- + kennen. Cognates include Dutch bekennen, and English and Scots beken.
çekim: geçmiş avoué · ortaç avoué · şimdiki avoue · ulaç avouant
köken: Inherited from Old French avoer, from Latin advocāre. The modern form is expected as in louer (from locāre). However, the Old French conjugation shows an unexpected vocalism, which may be due either to early levelling or to Latinate influence.
aile: aveu, avoueur, faute avouée est à demi pardonnée, faute avouée est à moitié pardonnée, inavouable, inavoué
köken: From Medieval Latin cōnfessāre (“to confess”), a derivative of Latin cōnfessus, past participle of cōnfiteor (“to confess, to admit”) from con- + fateor (“to admit”).
to acknowledge, confess · to see, to make out, to discern · to have sex, to know, have carnal knowledge
çekim: geçmiş bekenden · ortaç bekend · şimdiki bekent · ulaç bekennend
köken: From Middle Dutch bekennen, from Old Dutch bikennen, from Proto-West Germanic *bikannijan. Equivalent to be- + kennen. Cognates include German bekennen, and English and Scots beken.
to confess; to own up to; to admit to (to admit one has done something, especially something bad) · to confess (to disclose one’s sins to a clergyman) · to confess (to hear someone’s confessions)
çekim: geçmiş confessei · ortaç confessado · şimdiki confessa
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese confessar, from Ecclesiastical Latin cōnfessāre (“to confess”) (possibly an inheritance), a derivative of Latin cōnfessus, past participle of cōnfiteor (“to confess, to admit”) from con- + fateor (“to admit”).
to accept, admit, to approve, to allow · to recognize · to acknowledge
çekim: geçmiş 認めた
eş: 諾う
zıt: 否む, 拒む, 打ち消す
köken: Thought to be from 見(み) (mi, “seeing, looking”, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 見(み)る (miru, “to see, to look”)) + 留(と)める (tomeru, “to hold, to keep, to remain”), possibly with semantics like “to keep one's vision on” → “to recognize, to acknowledge, to observe”.
to admit (to wrongdoing) · to admit (concede as true, more generally) · Used to introduce a statement the speaker is confident is true, often as a friendly challenge or prompt for agreement.
çekim: geçmiş erkände · ortaç erkänd · ulaç erkännande
köken: From German erkennen or Low German erkennen. Cognate with Danish erkende, Norwegian Bokmål erkjenne, Norwegian Nynorsk erkjenne, erkjenna, Dutch erkennen and Luxembourgish erkennen. Equivalent to er- + känna.
Hon gick till polisen och erkände allt
Han erkände att han fuskat i kebabsåstävlingen
Jag måste erkänna att jag inte trodde att det fanns en chans att det skulle fungera
to confess, concede (admit to the truth, particularly in the context of something negative) · to plead guilty · to recognize, acknowledge (to acknowledge the existence or legality of)
çekim: geçmiş tunnustanut · şimdiki tunnustaisi · ulaç tunnustava
köken: tunnus (“symbol, mark”) + -taa. The meanings "to confess, recognize" might be a semantic loan from Swedish bekänna, erkänna (känna corresponding roughly to tuntea).
çekim: geçmiş mărturisit · ortaç mărturisit · şimdiki mărturisește
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic марторисати (martorisati), from Greek μαρτυρώ (martyró). Compare Bulgarian мартирисвам (martirisvam, “to confess”).
to confess, admit · to acknowledge, agree · to reveal, show
çekim: ortaç cōnfessus · şimdiki cōnfitētur · ulaç cōnfitēns
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Italic *fatēōr Latin fateor Latin cōnfiteor From con- + fateor (“acknowledge, own (up to)”).
aile: cōnfessiō, cōnfessor, cōnfessus
Confiteor Deo omnipotenti...
[…] haec ego sīc singula cōnfiteor.
Confitemini Domino quoniam bonus, quoniam in saeculum misericordia eius.
Learned borrowing from Koine Greek ἐξομολογῶ (exomologô), from Ancient Greek ἐξομολογέω (exomologéō). By surface analysis, εξ- (ex-) + ομολογώ (omologó).