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1. tutturmak, kökleştirmek; root out, root for k, kökleşmek, roo ara/yerleştir/kök sal, tutmak, root up kökünden sökmek, dili desteklemek, kök; köken, akortta temel nota, kök salmak, kök tutmak, esas neden, deşmek, burnu ile eşelemek, merkez, altında yatan n.
2. kaynak, memba.
3. memba, kaynak.

Etymology : Middle English, from Old English rOt, from Old Norse; akin to Old English wyrt root, Latin radix, Greek rhiza
Pronunciation : 'rüt, 'rut
Function : noun
Date : 12th century

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1. roots the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; "his roots in texas go back a long way"; "he went back to sweden to search for his roots"; "his music has african roots".
2. the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; "his roots in Texas go back a long way"; "he went back to Sweden to search for his roots"; "his music has African roots".
3. To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
4. Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.
5. To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.
6. The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.
7. The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth.
8. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids.
9. An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.
10. That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.
11. An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.
12. A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.
13. The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.
14. That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.
15. The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
16. The lowest place, position, or part.
17. The time which to reckon in making calculations.
18. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
19. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
20. To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.
21. To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; with up, out, or away.
22. To shout for, or otherwise noisly applaud or encourage, a contestant, as in sports; hence, to wish earnestly for the success of some one or the happening of some event, with the superstitious notion that this action may have efficacy; usually with for; as, the crowd rooted for the home team. the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground a number that when multiplied by itself some number of times equals a given number take root and begin to grow; "this plant roots quickly" cause to take roots plant by the roots come into existence, originate; "The problem roots in her depression".
23. a novel by the US writer Alex Haley (1921-92) which was also made into a television programme. It tells the story of several generations of an African-American family, and it is partly based on stories told in Haley's own family. The story starts with Kunta Kinte, a man from West Africa who is caught and taken to the US as a slave, and then describes what happens to him there and to his children and grandchildren until the time of the Civil War. The book and television programme encouraged many African-Americans to try to find out more about their own family origins (1976).