karalamak
Meaning
- (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.
Synonyms
lekelemek
iftira etmek
pislemek
üstünü çizmek
gayda çalmak
dalgın dalgın şekiller çizmek
çiziktirmek
Translations
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ka.ɾa.ɫaˈmak/
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قرهلامق (ḳaralamaḳ, “to blacken, to cover a paper with writing calligraphic exercises, scribbling etc.”), from Ottoman Turkish قره (ḳara, “black”), from Proto-Turkic *kara (“black”), morphologically kara + -la + -mak.
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