kalkmak

Meaning

  1. (intransitive) to go up, rise; become erect
  2. (intransitive) to stand up, rise to one's feet, get up
  3. (intransitive) to get up, wake up, get out of bed
  4. (intransitive) to leave, depart, take off
  5. (intransitive) to rise, come loose, peel off
  6. (intransitive) to go out of use, to be annulled, be repealed, be abolished
  7. (slang, transitive) to erect, be hard (for a penis)

Translations

Frequency

C2
Etymology

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish قالقمق (kalkmak, “to rise, ascend, get up, become erect, become annulled”), emphatic form Proto-Turkic *Kal(ï)- (“to rise”). Compare Mongolian халих (xalix, “to soar, fly”). Cognates Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (kalı-, “to rise in the air”), Karakhanid [script needed] (kalɨ̄māk, “to buck, jump”), Azerbaijani qalxmaq (“to rise, ascend, get up”), Bashkir ҡалҡыу (qalqıw, “to rise”), Kazakh қалқу (qalqu, “to soar”), Kyrgyz калкуу (kalkuu, “to float”), Southern Altai калыыр (kalïïr, “to jump, hop”), Tatar калку (qalku, “to rise”), Turkmen galkmak (“to rise”), Tuvan халыыр (xalıır, “to jump, run”), Uzbek qalqmoq (“to rise, swell, jump”), Yakut кылый (kïlïy, “to hop along”).

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