çekmek

  1. (transitive) to pull
  2. (transitive) to draw, haul, drag, tug
  3. (transitive) to attract, draw
  4. (transitive) to suck in, pull in, draw in
  5. (transitive) to suck, absorb
  6. (transitive) to bear, endure, put up with, suffer, brook, undergo
  7. (transitive, with-ablative) to withdraw
  8. (transitive) to inflect, conjugate
  9. (transitive) to take (a photograph), to shoot (a film, a video)
  10. (intransitive) to last, take time
  11. (intransitive) to weigh, have a weight of
  12. (intransitive) to shrink
  13. (intransitive) to take after, resemble
  14. (intransitive) to have reception
  15. (transitive) to grind into powder

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/t͡ʃekˈmek/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish چكمك (çekmek, “to pull, drag, draw, attract, imbibe, absorb, weigh, bear, suffer”), from Proto-Turkic *ček-. Cognates Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (çekmēk, “to draw”), Azerbaijani çəkmək (“to smoke”), Chagatai [script needed] (çekmek, “to pull”), Kipchak [script needed] (çek-, “to pull”), Kyrgyz чегүү (cegüü, “to pull, undergo”), Turkmen çekmek (“to pull, draw”), Uyghur چەكمەك (chekmek, “to undergo”), Uzbek chekmoq (“to pull”).

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