چالمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čal- (“to knock down, hit, agitate”);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani çalmaq, Kazakh шалу (şalu), Kyrgyz чалуу (caluu), Turkmen çalmak and Uzbek chalmoq.

Verb

چالمق • (çalmak)

  1. (transitive) to strike, beat, hit, pound, bash, impel with a blow
    Synonyms: اورمق (urmak), دوگمك (döğmek)
  2. (transitive) to play a tune or a musical instrument, perform music upon
  3. (transitive) to knock, strike for admittance, rap upon, as a door
  4. (transitive) to steal, rob, purloin, take illegally something owned by someone else
  5. (intransitive) to sound in successive beats, as a clock in striking the hour
  6. (of colors and flavors, intransitive) to verge upon or smack of

Derived terms
  • آتش چالمق (ateş çalmak, “to scorch”)
  • طبان چالمق (taban çalmak, “to run as fast as possible”)
  • قپو چالمق (kapu çalmak, “to knock at a door”)
  • چالاغان (çalağan, “that bites, snaps or stings”)
  • چالدرمق (çaldırmak, “to make or let be struck”)
  • چالشمق (çalışmak, “to work assiduously”)
  • چالغو (çalgu, çalgı, “musical instrument”)
  • چالق (çalık, “struck, injured”)
  • چالقامق (çalkamak, “to agitate, shake”)
  • چالم (çalım, “strike, hit”)
  • چالمه (çalma, “strike, hit”)
  • چالپانمق (çalpanmak, “to oscillate violently”)
  • چالین (çalın, “steel for striking fire”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: çalmak
  • →? Russian: ча́лить (čálitʹ)

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

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