qalmaq

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Azerbaijani

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Cyrillic галмаг
Abjad قالماق

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *kiāl-mak (to stay behind, remain).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ɡɑɫˈmɑχ]
  • Hyphenation: qal‧maq
  • Audio (Baku):(file)

Verb

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qalmaq (intransitive)

  1. to stay
    Heç kim qalmadı, hamı çıxıb getdi.No one stayed, everyone left.
  2. to remain, be left; to be left over
    Neçə dənəsi qalıb? (referring to objects)How many of them are still there?
  3. survive, remain alive
    Hamı öləcək, tək mən qalacağam.Everyone is going to die, I will be the only one to remain alive.
    • 2015 October, “Quş nəslinin sonuna çıxan tək bir pişik.”, in Bunabax5[1]:
      Uça bilməyən quşlar isə bu sıçovullar üçün asan yemə çevrildilər və bir müddət sonra o quşlardan demək olar ki bir dənəsi də qalmadı
      Whereas the birds unable to fly turned into easy catch for the rats, and practically not a single one of those birds survived after a while.
    • 2011 September 10, kulis.az[2]:
      Klassiklər sırasına girmək çox mühümdür. Fikirləşin ki, bir əsrdə yazılmış bütün romanlardan 10-15 dənəsi qalır.
      It is very important to enter the ranks the classics. Consider that of all the novels written in a century, only 10-15 survive [in memory].
  4. to live, stay, reside
    Synonym: yaşamaq
    Siz harada qalırsınız?Where do you stay? Where do you live?
    Onlar bir yerdə qalırlar.They are staying in one place, they live together.
    • 2014 May, İlqar Rəsul, “Şuşa xatirələri”, in Lenta.az[3], archived from the original on 12 November 2017:
      Hər yayı Şuşada dincəlirdik balaca vaxt. Orda qohumlarımız var idi. Düz iki ay orda qalırdıq.
      We would go on a short vacation to Shusha every summer. We had relatives there. We used to live there for exactly two months.
  5. to be postponed to [with dative]
    İşimizin həlli qaldı sonraya.The solution for our issue is postponed to later.

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References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kiāl-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

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Crimean Tatar

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Other scripts
Cyrillic къалмакъ
Roman

Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kiāl-mak (to stay behind, remain).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: qal‧maq

Verb

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qalmaq

  1. to find oneself
  2. to remain, be left
    trenniñ ketmesine beş daqqa qaldıThere are five minutes left before the train departs

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