karalama
Meaning
- (form-of, noun-from-verb) verbal noun of karalamak
- A sketch, doodle, writing exercise.
- A draft text with that needs to be engrossed.
- (figuratively) An act of defamation.
karalamak
- (transitive) To smear by drawing or painting with a pen, pencil or paint.
- (transitive) To cross out a text by drawing over it.
- (transitive) To write or draw as a draft; to sketch.
- (intransitive) To scribble hurriedly.
- (figuratively, transitive) To slander or defame someone, to besmirch.
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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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