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kaymak.

kaymak

6 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun/kaj.mak/

  1. kaymak

  2. best part of something

    figuratively
    İşte bu kadar ceremenin sonunda işin kaymağına geldik bak.
Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish قایماق (kaymak), from Proto-Turkic *kańak. Cognate to Azerbaijani qaymaq, Bashkir ҡаймаҡ (qaymaq), Chuvash хӑйма (hăjma)

verb/kaj.mak/

  1. to slide; to slip, skid

    intransitive
    Karlı yolda kayıp belini incitti.

  2. to shift

    intransitive
    İlgim gitardan piyanoya kaydı.

  3. to fuck, insult, swear

    slang · transitive
    Sana çok kötü kaymak üzereyim.

  4. to fuck, copulate

    slang · transitive · vulgar

  5. to ski

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قایمق (kaymak), from Old Anatolian Turkish قایمق (qaymaq), from Proto-Turkic *kād- (“to turn”). The dominant meaning of the word was "to turn" up until the 15th Century. The new sense, according to Nişanyan, developed from the idiom ayağı kaymak.

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