çarpmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish چارپمق‎.[1] Compare Old Turkic [script needed] (çap-)/[script needed] (çalp-, “to hit, strike, raid”).[2]

Verb

çarpmak (third-person singular simple present çarpar)

  1. to strike, bump, pound
    Yolda yürürken bana çarptı. ― He bumped into me while walking on the road.
    Yüreği korkudan çarpıyordu. ― His heart was pounding due to fear.
  2. to pilfer, steal
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:çalmak
    Bunu onların evinden çarptım. ― I stole this from their house.
  3. (arithmetic) to multiply
    İkiyle üçü çarparsan altı eder. ― If you multiply two by three, it makes six.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Ladino: chaftear

References

  1. Kélékian, Diran (1911), “چارپمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 458
  2. "çarpmak" - nişanyansözlük
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