atmak

Meaning

1. (transitive) to throw, cast, fire
2. (transitive) to throw away, discard
3. (transitive) abandon, give up
4. (transitive) to reject, expel
5. (transitive) to impute, to blame on
6. (intransitive) to lie, make up stories
7. (intransitive) to pulsate, beat

Hyphenated as

at‧mak

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɑtˈmɑk/

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آتمق (atmak, “to cast, throw, eject, shoot, fire”), from Proto-Turkic *at-, *ạt- (“to throw, shoot”).
Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (at-), Azerbaijani atmaq (“to shoot, throw”), Chuvash ывӑтма (yvătma, “to throw”), Kazakh ату (atu, “to shoot”), Kyrgyz атуу (atuu, “to shoot, fire”), Turkmen atmak (“to throw”), Tuvan адар (adar, “to shoot”), Uyghur ئاتماق (atmaq, “to throw, shoot”), Uzbek otmoq (“to shoot, eject”), Yakut ыт (ıt, “to shoot, fire”).

Sentences

Yanaklarına dökülen saçlarını geri atmak için başını silkti, sonra gözlerini bana dikerek.

She shook her head to throw back the hair that had fallen on her cheeks, then staring at me.