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uçmak

Pronunciation: /ut͡ʃˈmak/

“uçmak” is a Turkish word. Its 16 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to fly, to travel through the air, another gas or vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
  2. to sublimate
  3. to evaporate
  4. to fade, to wear off
  5. to fall from an elevated place
  6. to be present in a crowd
  7. to disappear
  8. to explode, to be blown up
  9. to fly off
  10. to rejoice, to become extremely happy
  11. to be stolen
  12. to get high, to become under the effect of a mood-altering drug
  13. to pass on to the afterlife after death
  14. to collapse

noun

  1. heaven
  2. cliff

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوچمق (“to fly, rise into the air, evaporate”), from Old Anatolian Turkish اوچمق (uçmaq), from Proto-Turkic *uč-. Compare Old Turkic 𐰆𐰲 (uč-), Azerbaijani uçmaq.

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