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Gagauz
Etymology
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish چَكْمَكْ (çäkmäk), from Proto-Turkic *ček- (“to draw, pull”),[1] the same root of Azerbaijani çəkmək and Turkish çekmek.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃʲecmæː/
- Hyphenation: çek‧mää
Verb
çekmää (third-person singular simple present çeker)
- (ditransitive) to pull, to drag
kendinä çekti onu- he pulled it towards himself
- (transitive) to snatch
- (transitive) to draw in, to suck in
içinä çekmää- to suck into itself
- (transitive) to inhale (a gas or its source)
tütün çekmää- to smoke a tobacco product
- (literally, “to inhale tobacco”)
- (transitive) to draw water from a well
- (transitive, figurative) to endure, to go through, to suffer
pek zorluk hem güçlük çektik biz- we endured a lot of hardships
- (transitive) to draw (a line)
çizi çekmää- to draw a line
- (transitive) to weigh
- (transitive) to row
çek suyu altına- row for yourself
- (transitive) to take a photo
- (transitive) to draw a card from a deck
- (transitive, physics) to attract, to pull physically
- (transitive, figurative) to attract emotionally or romantically
Derived terms
References
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çekmek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007
Further reading
- N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “çекмää”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 536
- Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “çekmää”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 45