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salmak.

to set free, let go, release

6 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

verb/saɫˈmak/
  1. to set free, let go, release

    transitive
  2. to release, to emit

    transitive
  3. to put out, put forth (shoots, roots)

    transitive
  4. to send, dispatch

    transitive
  5. to let attack, sic

    transitive
  6. to ignore, neglect, omit, become careless

    transitive
  7. to put, to add

    transitive
  8. to tax

    transitive
  9. to attack

    transitive
  10. to piss

    euphemistic · intransitive
  11. to dangle, to hang down

    transitive
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish صالمق (salmak), from Old Anatolian Turkish صالمق (salmaq), from Proto-Turkic *sal- (“to put, throw, drop, lower”). Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (sal-, “to let go, free, lower”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (sal-, “to swing”), Azerbaijani salmaq (“to drop, lower”), Bashkir һалыу (halıw, “to put”), Crimean Tatar salmaq (“to put”), Chuvash сулма (sulma, “to swing, throw, put, impose”), Kyrgyz салуу (saluu), Turkmen salmak (“to put, place”), Tuvan салыр (salır, “to put, place, let go”), Uzbek solmoq.

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