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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish صاللانمق (ṣallanmaḳ, “intransitive; to swing, to oscillate, to falter”), from Ottoman Turkish صاللامق (ṣallamaḳ, “to swing or rock to and fro, to mind, to pay attention”), from Ottoman Turkish صالمق (ṣalmaḳ, “to let go, to free, to let hang down, to send”), from Proto-Turkic *sal- (“to swing, to let hang down, to let go, to spare, to set free”), morphologically sal- + -le + -n (“passive and reflexive suffix”) + -mek. Cognates with Azerbaijani sallanmaq.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /saɫ.ɫanˈmak/
- Hyphenation: sal‧lan‧mak
Verb
sallanmak (third-person singular simple present sallanır)
- (intransitive) For something to move regularly back and forth while suspended or on an axis; to swing, to oscillate, to sway.
- (intransitive) To become loose at its place and stir; to wobble, to jiggle.
- Synonyms: kımıldamak, oynamak, ırgalanmak
- (transitive) To swing oneself on a swing or a hammock etc.
- (transitive, figuratively) To waste one's time on pointless things; to loiter, to idle around, to dillydally.
- Synonyms: oyalanmak, savsaklanmak, vakit öldürmek, aylaklık etmek, sürtmek
Conjugation
1 The suffixes -ken and -cesine may be suffixed to the base form of any of the following tenses: aorist, continuous, inferential (even when it follows another suffix), and future.
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