karalamak

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish قره‌لامق (ḳaralamaḳ, to blacken, to cover a paper with writing calligraphic exercises, scribbling etc.),[1] from Ottoman Turkish قره (ḳara, black), from Proto-Turkic *kara (black),[2][3] morphologically kara +‎ -la +‎ -mak.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ka.ɾa.ɫaˈmak/
  • Hyphenation: ka‧ra‧la‧mak

Verb

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karalamak (third-person singular simple present karalar)

  1. (transitive) To smear by drawing or painting with a pen, pencil or paint.
  2. (transitive) To cross out a text by drawing over it.
    Synonyms: çizmek, kalem çekmek, silmek
  3. (transitive) To write or draw as a draft; to sketch.
  4. (intransitive) To scribble hurriedly.
  5. (transitive, figuratively) To slander or defame someone, to besmirch.
    Synonyms: iftira etmek, iftira atmak, kara çalmak, kara sürmek, leke sürmek

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قره‌لامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1450
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kara”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kara”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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