karalama

Meaning

  1. (form-of, noun-from-verb) verbal noun of karalamak
  2. A sketch, doodle, writing exercise.
  3. A draft text with that needs to be engrossed.
  4. (figuratively) An act of defamation.

karalamak

  1. (transitive) To smear by drawing or painting with a pen, pencil or paint.
  2. (transitive) To cross out a text by drawing over it.
  3. (transitive) To write or draw as a draft; to sketch.
  4. (intransitive) To scribble hurriedly.
  5. (figuratively, transitive) To slander or defame someone, to besmirch.

Synonyms

çiziktirme

üstünü çizme

dalgınlıkla karalanan şekiller

silme

Frequency

35k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ka.ɾa.ɫaˈma/
Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قرهلامه (ḳaralama, “a writing a calligraphic exercise, a schoolboy's calligraphic exercise”), from Ottoman Turkish قره (ḳara, “black”), from Proto-Turkic *kara (“black”), morphologically kara + -la + -ma.

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