salmak

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to set free, let go, release
  2. (transitive) to release, to emit
  3. (transitive) to put out, put forth (shoots, roots)
  4. (transitive) to send, dispatch
  5. (transitive) to let attack, sic
  6. (transitive) to ignore, neglect, omit, become careless
  7. (transitive) to put, to add
  8. (transitive) to tax
  9. (transitive) to attack
  10. (euphemistic, intransitive) to piss
  11. (transitive) to dangle, to hang down

Opposite of
tutmak
Frequency

38k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sɑɫmɑk/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish صالمق (salmak), from Old Anatolian Turkish صالمق (salmaq), from Proto-Turkic *sal- (“to put, throw, drop, lower”). Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (sal-, “to let go, free, lower”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (sal-, “to swing”), Azerbaijani salmaq (“to drop, lower”), Bashkir һалыу (halıw, “to put”), Crimean Tatar salmaq (“to put”), Chuvash сулма (sulma, “to swing, throw, put, impose”), Kyrgyz салуу (saluu), Turkmen salmak (“to put, place”), Tuvan салыр (salır, “to put, place, let go”), Uzbek solmoq.

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