چالمق

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čal- (to knock down, hit, agitate); cognate with Azerbaijani çalmaq, Kazakh шалу (şalu), Kyrgyz чалуу (caluu), Turkmen çalmak and Uzbek chalmoq.

Verb

چالمق (çalmak)

  1. (transitive) to strike, beat, hit, pound, bash, impel with a blow
    Synonyms: اورمق (urmak), دوگمك (döğmek)
  2. (transitive) to play a tune or a musical instrument, perform music upon
  3. (transitive) to knock, strike for admittance, rap upon, as a door
  4. (transitive) to steal, rob, purloin, take illegally something owned by someone else
  5. (intransitive) to sound in successive beats, as a clock in striking the hour
  6. (of colors and flavors, intransitive) to verge upon or smack of

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: çalmak
  • ? Russian: ча́лить (čálitʹ)

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čal-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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