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TURKISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

kalkmak.

to go up, rise; become erect

7 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

verb/kaɫkˈmak/
  1. to go up, rise; become erect

    intransitive
    Tartının bir ucuna yük bindirir isen öbür ucu kalkar.
    Kartal kalkar dal sarkar, dal sarkar kartal kalkar.
  2. to stand up, rise to one's feet, get up

    intransitive
    ayağa kalkmak
  3. to get up, wake up, get out of bed

    intransitive
    Körle yatan şaşı kalkar.
  4. to leave, depart, take off

    intransitive
  5. to rise, come loose, peel off

    intransitive
  6. to go out of use, to be annulled, be repealed, be abolished

    intransitive
  7. to erect, be hard (for a penis)

    slang · transitive
Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish قالقمق (kalkmak, “to rise, ascend, get up, become erect, become annulled”), emphatic form Proto-Turkic *Kal(ï)- (“to rise”). Compare Mongolian халих (xalix, “to soar, fly”). Cognates Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (qalï-, “to rise in the air”), Karakhanid [script needed] (qalïmāq, “to buck, jump”), Azerbaijani qalxmaq (“to rise, ascend, get up”), Bashkir ҡалҡыу (qalqıw, “to rise”), Kazakh қалқу (qalquw, “to soar”), Kyrgyz калкуу (kalkuu, “to float”), Southern Altai калыыр (kalïïr, “to jump, hop”), Tatar калку (qalqu, “to rise”), Turkmen galkmak (“to rise”), Tuvan халыыр (xalıır, “to jump, run”), Uzbek qalqmoq (“to rise, swell, jump”), Yakut кылый (kïlïy, “to hop along”).

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