çırpınmak

Turkish

Etymology

Derived from çarpmak (“to hit, to strike, to bump”), from Proto-Turkic *čap- or Proto-Turkic *čalp- (“to hit, to steal, to plunder”),[1] morphologically çırp- +‎ -ın- +‎ -mak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃɯɾ.pɯnˈmak/

Verb

çırpınmak (third-person singular simple present çırpınır)

  1. (intransitive) To struggle or to flutter with pain.
  2. (intransitive, figurative) To strive intensely to achieve a highly wanted goal.

Conjugation

References

  1. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çırp-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

  • “çırpınmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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