çatmaq

• IPA^(key): ,
• Hyphenation: çat‧maq

From Proto-Turkic *čat- (“to bring together”). Cognate with Karakhanid جَتْماقْ (čatmāq), Turkish çatmak, Crimean Tatar çatmaq.

çatmaq (intransitive)

1. to reach

   Yuxarıdan qutunu endirə bilərsən? Oraya əlim çatmır.

   Can you take down the box from up there? My hand doesn't reach there.

2. to arrive

   Synonyms: yetmək, yetişmək

   Axır ki, beş saatlıq yoldan sonra, evə çatdıq.

   Finally, after having traveled for five hours, we arrived home.

3. to achieve, to get

   Həyatda nə arzun varsa hamısına çatasan.

   May you achieve whatever you wish in life.

   (literally, “May you arrive at whatever wishes you have in life.”)

4. to catch up

   Synonym: yetişmək

5. to suffice, be enough, be short

   Synonyms: yetmək, kifayyət etmək, kifayyət olmaq, bəs etmək, bəs olmaq, çatışmaq

   Hamıya yemək çatmadı, gərək yenə bişirim.

   The food didn't suffice for everyone, so I should cook more.

   Getdim çörək almağa, 50 gəpiyim çatmadı.

   I went to buy bread, but I was 50 qapik short.

6. to come, to be on turn

   Bizə çatanda, pul heç vaxt tapılmır

   When it is our turn to get paid, there are never any money

   (literally, “When it comes to us, money is never found”)

   • 2017 August 25, Bakipost.az‎, archived from the original on 28 October 2017:

     Bu texnologiya yenilikləri, dünyanın hər yerində rahatca işləyən avadanlıqlar bizə çatanda niyə lazımsız bir şeyə çevrilir, görəsən?

     These technological innovations work well everywhere in the world, why do they turn into something useless when it comes to us?

7. to get it, to understand

   Sənə demədim ora daha getmə? Deyəsən çatmadı. ― Haven't I told you not to go there anymore? It seems like you didn't get it.

çatmaq (transitive)

1. to stack, pile (arms); to prop (poles, etc.) together
2. to put up (a framework of poles or timbers)
3. to load (a beast of burden)
5. to make (a fire)

   Synonym: qalamaq

   tonqal çatmaq ― to make a bonfire

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