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