چكمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ček- (“to pull toward oneself”); cognate with Azerbaijani çəkmək, Chuvash ҫак (śak), Kazakh шегу (şegu), Kyrgyz чегүү (cegüü), Salar çik, Turkmen çekmek and Uzbek chekmoq.

Verb

چكمك • (çekmek)

1. to draw, pull, haul, to apply force to something so it comes towards one
2. to drag, draw, to pull along a surface, sometimes with difficulty
3. to attract, draw, to pull towards an object or a person without touching
4. to extract, draw out, pull out, to remove forcibly from a fixed position
5. to draw, trace, delineate, to sketch something lightly or with care
6. to imbibe, suck up, drink in, to absorb a liquid, like a sponge
7. to bear, endure, support, to tolerate or put up with something unpleasant

   Synonyms: طاشیمق (taşımak), گوتورمك (götürmek)

Derived terms

• ال چكمك (el çekmek, “to relinquish”)
• انفیه چكمك (enfiye çekmek, “to take snuff”)
• دیزگین چكمك (dizgin çekmek, “to draw rein”)
• ضرر چكمك (zarar çekmek, “to suffer harm or loss”)
• قولاق چكمك (kulak çekmek, “to scold”)
• كورك چكمك (kürek çekmek, “to row”)
• چكشمك (çekişmek, “to debate, quarrel”)
• چكلمك (çekilmek, “to take off, remove”)
• چكمه (çekme, “a thing pulled out”)
• چكنمك (çekinmek, “to draw as a garment”)
• چكیش (çekiş, “mode of pulling”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: çekmää
• Turkish: çekmek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çekmek2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 918
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چكمك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 185b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چكمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 472
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Trahere”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1685
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چكمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 1631-1632
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çek-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چكمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 726