kalkışmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قالقشمق (kalkışmak). Formed as the reciprocal of kalkmak.

Verb

kalkışmak (third-person singular simple present kalkışır)

1. to attempt or pretend to attempt a difficult or impossible task
   • 1941 April 30, headline on page 1 of En Son Havâdis:

     Almanyanın Cebelüttarık'ı zapta kalkışması askerî bir zarurettir!

     It is a martial necessity for Germany to capture Gibraltar

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قالقشمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 934
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قالقشمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1421
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN