germek.
to stretch, strain, tighten, draw, lengthen (by pulling)
Meaning & usage
to stretch, strain, tighten, draw, lengthen (by pulling)
to stretch out, extend
to strain, tauten
make (nerves, relations) tense
to distress, to cause strain or anxiety to someone, to creep out
Where this word comes from
From Ottoman Turkish كرمك (germek, “to stretch, tight, tighten, spread out”), from Proto-Turkic *ker- (“to spread out, to hang”). Cognates Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (kermēk, “to stretch, stretch out, fence, block”), Azerbaijani gərmək (“to tense”), Crimean Tatar kermek (“to stretch”), Bashkir киреү (kirew, “to stretch”), Chuvash карма (karma, “to hang, spread, fence, block”), Kazakh керу (kerüw, “to pull, stretch”), Kipchak [Arabic needed] (ker-, “to expand”), Kyrgyz керүү (kerüü, “to stretch”), Southern Altai кереер (kereer, “to stretch”), керер (kerer, “to stretch”), Tatar киерү (kiyerü, “to stretch”), Tuvan херер (xerer, “to stretch”), Turkmen germek (“to put up, set up”), Uyghur كەرمەك (kermek, “to stretch”), Uzbek kermoq (“to pull, spread”).
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