سۆيمەك

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *seb- (“to love, like”). Cognate with Turkish sevmek and Uzbek sevmoq.

• IPA^(key): /søjmɛk/

سۆيمەك • (söymek)

1. to kiss
2. to love
   • 2023, Abduweli Ayup, “If I were the country, the homeland you loved [Uyghur: سەن سۆيگەن ۋەتەن، ئەل بولغان بولسام]”, in Munawwar Abdulla, transl., Spring Will Come: Writings from East Turkistan [Uyghur: باھار كېلىدۇ: شەرقىي تۈركىستاندىن ئەسەرلەر]‎^[1], The Asian American Writers' Workshop:

     تىنجىق تۈنۈڭدە يەل بولغان بولسام،
     سۇسىز چۆلۈڭدە سەل بولغان بولسام،
     قۇرۇپ كەتمەستىڭ چوغلۇقتەك، گۈلدەك،
     سەن سۆيگەن ۋەتەن، ئەل بولغان بولسام.

     tinjiq tününgde yel bolghan bolsam,
     susiz chölüngde sel bolghan bolsam,
     qurup ketmesting choghluqtek, güldek,
     sen söygen weten, el bolghan bolsam.

     If I were your breeze in the stifling night,
     Or a flood in your arid desert,
     You may not have withered like a peony,
     If I were the country, the homeland you loved.

3. to be attached to

• Schwarz, Henry G. (1992), An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN, page 486