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
  8. (transitive) to send digitally, over the Internet etc.

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɑtˈmɑk/
Etymology

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish آتمق (atmak, “to cast, throw, eject, shoot, fire”), from Proto-Turkic *at-, *at- (“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 (ït, “to shoot, fire”).

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