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kaldırmak

Pronunciation: /kaɫ.dɯɾˈmak/

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

verb

  1. to lift up, raise, elevate
  2. to make (someone) stand up; to get someone up (from bed)
  3. to remove, take away, to put something away or out of reach
  4. to bear, endure, tolerate (someone's words or behavior)
  5. to abolish, do away with
  6. to swipe, make off with, steal, lift
  7. to be able to run or operate a software, video game etc.
  8. to revive

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قالدرمق (kaldırmak, “to lift up, raise, pick up, set up, erect, carry, wake up, take away, abrogate”), causative form of Proto-Turkic *Kal(ï)- (“to rise, jump up”). Clauson thinks the Turkish form is rather crasis of *kalk-tur-, where -tur is causative suffix. See kalkmak.

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