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çekmek

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃecˈmec/

“çekmek” is a Turkish word. Its 17 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to pull
  2. to draw, haul, drag, tug
  3. to attract, draw
  4. to suck in, pull in, draw in
  5. to suck, absorb
  6. to bear, endure, put up with, suffer, brook, undergo
  7. to withdraw
  8. to inflect, conjugate
  9. to take (a photograph), to shoot (a film, a video)
  10. to withdraw (money, an application etc.)
  11. to draw a lot at random
  12. to grind into powder
  13. to last, take time
  14. to weigh, have a weight of
  15. to shrink
  16. to take after, resemble
  17. to have reception

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish چكمك (çekmek, “to pull, drag, draw, attract, imbibe, absorb, weigh, bear, suffer”), from Proto-Turkic *ček-. Cognates Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (çekmēk, “to draw”), Azerbaijani çəkmək (“to pull, to smoke”), Chagatai [script needed] (çekmek, “to pull”), Kipchak [script needed] (çek-, “to pull”), Kyrgyz чегүү (cegüü, “to pull, undergo”), Turkmen çekmek…

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