Jump to content

atmak

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Turkish

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish آتمق (atmak, to cast, throw, eject, shoot, fire),[1] from Proto-Turkic *at-, *ạt- (to throw, shoot).[2]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (at-), Azerbaijani atmaq (to shoot, throw), Chuvash ывӑтма (yvătma, to throw), Kazakh ату (atu, to shoot), Kyrgyz атуу (atuu, to shoot, fire), Turkmen atmak (to throw), Tuvan адар (adar, to shoot), Uyghur ئاتماق (atmaq, to throw, shoot), Uzbek otmoq (to shoot, eject), Yakut ыт (ıt, to shoot, fire).

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /atˈmak/
  • Hyphenation: at‧mak
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -mɑk

Verb

[edit]

atmak (third-person singular simple present atar)

  1. (transitive) to throw, cast, fire
    Bana kartopu attılar.
    They threw a snowball at me.
  2. (transitive) to throw away, discard
  3. (transitive) abandon, give up
  4. (transitive) to reject, expel
  5. (transitive) to impute, to blame on
  6. (intransitive, frequently with yalan) to lie, make up stories
    Yalan atma !
    Don’t lie!
  7. (intransitive) to pulsate, beat
    Kalbi atıyor mu?
    Is his heart beating?

Conjugation

[edit]

Derived terms

[edit]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2015-07-06) “at-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*p`ā̀t`à”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill