kalmak

Sentences
Meaning

  1. (intransitive) to remain, be left; to be left over
  2. (intransitive) to come to a halt, reach a standstill
  3. (intransitive) to wait, stay, camp
  4. (intransitive) to spoil, go bad, sour
  5. (intransitive, with-ablative) to fail (a class), flunk
  6. (intransitive, with-dative) to be postponed to
  7. (intransitive) to be covered with
  8. (auxiliary, intransitive) Expresses continuous action when used with verbal adverbs (those with -a, -e, -ıp, -ip, -up, -üp)

Synonyms

hayatta kalmak

varlığını sürdürmek

geçinip gitmek

daha ileri gidememek

geriye kalmak

geçindirmek

mevcut olmak

Frequency

A2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kɑɫmɑk/
Etymology

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish قالمق (qalmaq, “to halt, cease moving, remain, remain behind, be left, to wait, to be deficient”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (qalmaq, “to remain”), from Proto-Turkic *kiāl-mak (“to stay behind, remain”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰞 (qal-, “to be left (behind)”), Old Uyghur qʾlmʾq (qalmaq, “to remain”), Karakhanid قَلْماقْ (qalmāq, “to remain”).

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