tutmak

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to hold; to take hold of; to grip; to grab
  2. (transitive) to catch, hunt
  3. (transitive) to rent, hire, take on, employ
  4. (transitive) to hold back; to restrain
  5. (transitive) to look after, watch over
  6. (transitive) to take up, cover, envelop, fill
  7. (transitive) to back, support, approve of, like
  8. (transitive) to keep (one's promise, one's word)
  9. (transitive) to accord with, be consistent with, jibe with, agree with
  10. (transitive) to do, make sth. (in a certain way)
  11. (intransitive) to be realized, to come true, come to pass
  12. (intransitive) (for something) to total, come to a total of, come to, amount to, add up to
  13. (intransitive) to last, to take
  14. (intransitive) to stick, adhere
  15. (informal, transitive) to hinder, to impede, to distract
  16. (transitive) to defend
  17. (transitive) to cause to feel sick
  18. (transitive) to keep, to help remain
  19. (transitive) to keep, to own, to possess
  20. (intransitive) to unexpectedly occur, especially if it annoys the speaker
  21. (transitive) to present, to offer
  22. (transitive) to accept as true, to assume to be true

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/tutmɑk/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طوتمق (tutmak), from Old Anatolian Turkish طوتمق (dutmaq, tutmaq), from Proto-Turkic *tut- (“to grasp”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐱃𐰆𐱃 (tut-, “to keep, catch, own”), Azerbaijani tutmaq (“to catch, keep”), Bashkir тотоу (totow, “to keep, hold”), Chuvash тытма (tytma, “to keep, hold”), Khakas & Shor тударға (tudarğa, “to keep, hold, catch, seize, rule, hold back”), Kyrgyz тутуу (tutuu, “to catch”), Turkmen tutmak (“to hold, keep, catch, hire, fill”), Tuvan тудар (tudar, “to hold, catch, grab”), Uzbek tutmoq (“to take, hold, catch”), Yakut тут (tut, “to hold, seize, grab, catch”), Gagauz tutmaa.

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