қалмақ

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Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic قالماق
Cyrillic қалмақ
Latin qalmaq

Etymology 1

Cognate with Kumyk къалмакъ (qalmaq), Turkmen gālmak, Azerbaijani qalmaq, Turkish kalmak, etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qɑl.mɑq/,
  • Hyphenation: қал‧мақ

Verb

қалмақ (qalmaq)

  1. volitional participle of қал- (qal-, to stay, affirmative stem)
    қалмақ кісілерqalmaq kısılerpeople who would like to stay
  2. third-person volitional of қал-
    Кісілер қалмақ.Kısıler qalmaq.People would like to stay.
Declension

This participle needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

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Compare with Chagatai قالماق (qālmāq /⁠qalmaq⁠/, Mongol); Siberian Tatar ҡалмаҡ (qalmaq, a tribe name), Bashkir ҡалмаҡ (qalmaq, a tribe name), Khakas халмах (xalmax, a tribe name); Written Oirat ᡍᠠᠯᡅᡏᠠᡎ (xalimag), Kalmyk хальмг (xalʹmg); etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qɑl.mɑq/,
  • Hyphenation: қал‧мақ

Noun

қалмақ (qalmaq)

  1. (singulatively) a Kalmyk, a Kalmuck (person)
  2. (attributively) Kalmyk, Kalmuck
    қалмақ тіліqalmaq tılıthe Kalmyk language
Declension