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çekmää

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃʲecmæː/
  • Hyphenation: çek‧mää

Verb

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çekmää (third-person singular simple present çeker)

  1. (ditransitive) to pull, to drag
    kendinä çekti onu
    he pulled it towards himself
  2. (transitive) to snatch
  3. (transitive) to draw in, to suck in
    içinä çekmää
    to suck into itself
  4. (transitive) to inhale (a gas or its source)
    tütün çekmää
    to smoke a tobacco product
    (literally, “to inhale tobacco”)
  5. (transitive) to draw water from a well
  6. (transitive, figurative) to endure, to go through, to suffer
    pek zorluk hem güçlük çektik biz
    we endured a lot of hardships
  7. (transitive) to draw (a line)
    çizi çekmää
    to draw a line
  8. (transitive) to weigh
  9. (transitive) to row
    çek suyu altına
    row for yourself
  10. (transitive) to take a photo
  11. (transitive) to draw a card from a deck
  12. (transitive, physics) to attract, to pull physically
  13. (transitive, figurative) to attract emotionally or romantically

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çekmek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007

Further reading

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  • 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
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