دكه‌مك

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دَكَمَكْ (däŋämäk, “to compare, measure; to try”), from Proto-Turkic *teŋe- (“to value, compare”),^[1] a derivation from *teŋ (“equal”), whence دنك (denk, “equal”). Cognate with Azerbaijani dənəmək.

دكه‌مك • (deñemek)

(transitive) to try, try out, test, put to the test, to scrutinize, explore, or evaluate by testing or experimentation
Synonym: صینامق (sınamak)
(transitive) to try, attempt, endeavour, fand, to seek to do a thing, to make an attempt or effort to do something
Synonym: قالقشمق (kalkışmak)

[1]
Clauson, Gerard (1972) “teŋe:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 516

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