qalmaq

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Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic галмаг
Abjad قالماق

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kiāl-mak (to stay behind, remain).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: qal‧maq
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Verb

qalmaq (intransitive)

  1. to stay
    Heç kim qalmadı, hamı çıxıb getdi.No one stayed, everyone left.
  2. to remain, be left; to be left over
    Neçə dənəsi qalıb? (referring to objects)How many of them are still there?
  3. survive, remain alive
    Hamı öləcək, tək mən qalacağam.Everyone is going to die, I will be the only one to remain alive.
    • 2015 October, “Quş nəslinin sonuna çıxan tək bir pişik.”, in Bunabax5:
      Uça bilməyən quşlar isə bu sıçovullar üçün asan yemə çevrildilər və bir müddət sonra o quşlardan demək olar ki bir dənəsi də qalmadı
      Whereas the birds unable to fly turned into easy catch for the rats, and practically not a single one of those birds survived after a while.
    • 2011 September 10, kulis.az:
      Klassiklər sırasına girmək çox mühümdür. Fikirləşin ki, bir əsrdə yazılmış bütün romanlardan 10-15 dənəsi qalır.
      It is very important to enter the ranks the classics. Consider that of all the novels written in a century, only 10-15 survive .
  4. to live, stay, reside
    Synonym: yaşamaq
    Siz harada qalırsınız?Where do you stay? Where do you live?
    Onlar bir yerdə qalırlar.They are staying in one place, they live together.
    • 2014 May, İlqar Rəsul, “Şuşa xatirələri”, in Lenta.az, archived from the original on 12 November 2017:
      Hər yayı Şuşada dincəlirdik balaca vaxt. Orda qohumlarımız var idi. Düz iki ay orda qalırdıq.
      We would go on a short vacation to Shusha every summer. We had relatives there. We used to live there for exactly two months.
  5. to be postponed to
    İşimizin həlli qaldı sonraya.The solution for our issue is postponed to later.

Conjugation

References

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

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