karalamak

Meaning

  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

lekelemek

iftira etmek

pislemek

üstünü çizmek

gayda çalmak

dalgın dalgın şekiller çizmek

çiziktirmek

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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