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çatmak

“çatmak” is a Turkish word. Its 8 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to stack, pile (arms); to prop (poles, etc.) together
  2. to put up (a framework of poles or timbers)
  3. to tie on (a cloth worn around the forehead)
  4. to knit (one's brows)
  5. to meet with, come up against, run up against (someone or something unpleasant)
  6. to encounter, chance upon (someone)
  7. to scold, berate
  8. to hit, bump

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish چاتمق (çatmak, “to bring together”), from Proto-Turkic *čat- (“to bring together”). Cognate with Karakhanid جَتْماقْ (čatmāq).

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