kırma

Meaning

kırmak

  1. (transitive) to break
  2. (figuratively, transitive) to hurt someone's feelings
  3. (figuratively, transitive) to skip school

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kɯɾˈma/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قیرمه (ḳırma, “the act of breaking, a pleat, crease, broken, fractured, folded”), from Ottoman Turkish قیرمق (ḳırmaḳ, “to break, to crack, to split, to offend, to kill”), from Proto-Turkic *kïr- (“to break, to demolish, to dig, to scratch”), morphologically kır- + -ma. Cognates with Azerbaijani qırma.

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