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salmak

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish صالمق (salmak, to loose, free, throw, fling, send, postpone, impose as a tax), from Proto-Turkic *sal- (to put, throw, drop, lower).

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (sal-, to let go, free, lower), Old Uyghur [script needed] (sal-, to swing) Azerbaijani salmaq (to drop, lower), Bashkir һалыу (halıw, to put), Crimean Tatar salmaq (to put), Chuvash сулма (sulma, to swing, throw, put, impose), Kyrgyz салуу (saluu), Turkmen salmak (to put, place), Tuvan салыр (salır, to put, place, let go), Uzbek solmoq.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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salmak (third-person singular simple present salar)

  1. (transitive) to set free, let go, release
  2. (transitive) (for a plant) to put out, put forth (shoots, roots)
  3. (transitive) to send, dispatch
  4. (transitive) to let (someone, an animal) attack, sic
  5. to ignore, neglect, omit, be careless

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