takmak
Meaning
- to wear, put on
- (transitive) to attach, fasten, affix, put something on; to pin something to; to hang something on
- to give (a name) to
- (intransitive, with-dative) to pick on, single someone out for harassment
- to give a damn
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In summary
From Ottoman Turkish طاقمق (takmak), داقمق (dakmak, “to put, affix, attach, append”), from Proto-Turkic *tak- (“to bind to, add to”). From 17th century onwards /t/ was preferred over /d/ due to unvoiced final /k/. Cognates Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (tak-), Karakhanid [script needed] (takmāk, “to fix, attach”), Azerbaijani taxmaq (“to insert, put on”), Bashkir тағыу (tağıw, “to attach”), Kazakh тағу (tağu, “to put on, pin”), Kyrgyz тагуу (taguu, “to attach”), Southern Altai тагар (tagar, “to pin, fasten”), Turkmen dakmak (“to attach”), Uzbek taqmoq (“to attach”).
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