kıvırmak

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to curl, to twist
  2. (transitive) to twist, to fold from a corner
  3. (transitive) to dance by shaking one's hips
  4. (transitive) to make up
  5. (transitive) to deflect
  6. (intransitive) to achieve, succeed
  7. (colloquial, transitive) to swindle
  8. (informal, transitive) to skip, dodge, loaf, evade

Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قیورمق (kıvırmak, kıvurmak), from Proto-Turkic *kïbur-.

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