çıkmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish چیقمق‎[1], from Proto-Turkic *čïk- (“to go out”)[2].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃɯkˈmɑk/
  • Hyphenation: çık‧mak

Verb

çıkmak (third-person singular simple present çıkar)

  1. (with ablative) to leave, exit, quit, get out
    Odadan hızla çıktım. ― I left the room quickly.
  2. to get out
    Hayatı asla ciddiye alma, zaten canlı çıkan yok. ― Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
    Evde çok kalıyorsun. Daha sık dışarı çık. ― You stay home too much. Get out more often.
    Motor yağı lekesi zor çıkar. ― Motor oil stain gets out hard.
  3. (for an event) to happen, occur
    Savaş bu küçük şehir yüzünden çıktı. ― The war occurred because of this small city.
  4. (with dative) to climb
    Çocuk düşünmeden ağaca çıktı. ― The child climbed the tree without thinking.
  5. (with ile) to date
    İki yıldır Ercan'la çıkıyorum. ― I've been dating Ercan for two years.
  6. (arithmetic) to subtract
    Ondan altı çıkarsa dört kalır. ― Subtracting six from ten equals four.
  7. to appear, to look (on a photo, video, etc.)
    Çok kötü çıkmışım, bir daha çek.
    I look so bad, take another photo.

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References

  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چیقمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 745
  2. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*čɨk-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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