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TURKISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

takmak.

to wear, put on

6 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

verb
  1. to wear, put on

  2. to attach, fasten, affix, put something on; to pin something to; to hang something on

    transitive
  3. to give (a name) to

  4. to pick on, single someone out for harassment

    intransitive · with-dative
  5. to give a damn

Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish طاقمق (takmak), داقمق (dakmak, “to put, affix, attach, append”), from Proto-Turkic *tak- (“to bind to, add to”). From 17th century onwards /t/ was preferred over /d/ due to unvoiced final /k/. Cognates Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (tak-), Karakhanid [script needed] (takmāk, “to fix, attach”), Azerbaijani taxmaq (“to insert, put on”), Bashkir тағыу (tağıw, “to attach”), Kazakh тағу (tağuw, “to put on, pin”), Kyrgyz тагуу (taguu, “to attach”), Southern Altai тагар (tagar, “to pin, fasten”), Turkmen dakmak (“to attach”), Uzbek taqmoq (“to attach”).

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