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.
to light, to ignite; to turn on (any kind of) lights (including flames) · to become sexually aroused · to become enthusiastic about something
çekim: geçmiş tände · ortaç tänd · ulaç tändande
zıt: släcka
köken: From Old Swedish tænda, from Old Norse tenda, from Proto-Germanic *tandijaną. Akin to German zünden and Old English tendan (whence English tind). The meaning of sexual arousal is likely a semantic calque from English turn on.
to burn (to cause to be consumed by fire); incinerate · to burn (to overheat so as to make unusable) · to burn (to make or produce by the application of fire)
çekim: geçmiş polttanut · şimdiki polttaisi · ulaç polttava
köken: From Proto-Finnic *polttadak. Cognates include Estonian põletama, Ludian poltada, Veps poutta, Votic põlõtta, Ter Sami pɨellˈted and Erzya пултамс (pultams). Originally probably a causative derivation of palaa; see the Proto-Finnic entry for more. * (to distill alcohol): Compare Swedish bränna.
çekim: ortaç ignītus · şimdiki ignit · ulaç igniēns
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁engʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnís Proto-Italic *engʷnis Latin ignis Latin -iō Latin igniō From ignis (“fire”) + -iō.
to kindle · light a fire, ignite · turn on a light
çekim: geçmiş cyneuwyd · şimdiki cyneuo
köken: From Middle Welsh kynneu, from Proto-Brythonic *kund Proto-Celtic *kondauyeti, prefixed from *dauyeti (“to kindle, burn”) (modern deifio). More at deifio.