salmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صالمق (salmak, “to loose, free, throw, fling, send, postpone, impose as a tax”), from Proto-Turkic *sal- (“to put, throw, drop, lower”).

Cognate with Karakhanid (sal-, “to let go, free, lower”), Old Uyghur (sal-, “to swing”) Azerbaijani salmaq (“to drop, lower”), Bashkir һалыу (halıw, “to put”), Crimean Tatar salmaq (“to put”), Chuvash сулма (sulma, “to swing, throw, put, impose”), Kyrgyz салуу (saluu), Turkmen salmak (“to put, place”), Tuvan салыр (salır, “to put, place, let go”), Uzbek solmoq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑɫmɑk/

Verb

salmak (third-person singular simple present salar)

1. (transitive) to set free, let go, release
2. (transitive) (for a plant) to put out, put forth (shoots, roots)
3. (transitive) to send, dispatch
4. (transitive) to let (someone, an animal) attack, sic
5. to ignore, neglect, omit, be careless

Conjugation

Synonyms

• çözmek
• bırakmak
• göndermek
• boşlamak
• koyuvermek

Antonyms

• tutmak

Derived terms

• salma
• salış
• salgı
• salgın
• salık
• salkım
• salt
• saltık
• salmamak
• salamamak
• salabilmek

Related terms

• sallamak
• salınmak
• (?) saldırmak
• sarkmak
• salt
• salak

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “salmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük