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çəkmək

Pronunciation: [t͡ʃæcˈmæc]

“çəkmək” is an Azerbaijani word. Its 20 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to move by pulling (especially short distance)
  2. to pull or win someone over (to their side)
  3. to draw, haul, drag, tug
  4. to withdraw, to pull out
  5. to send or move (troops)
  6. lay, construct, build, install (a road, a pipe, a wire etc.)
  7. to smoke
  8. to attract, draw
  9. to occupy, interest, engross
  10. to grind, mill
  11. to close, shut
  12. to suck up, absorb
  13. to bear, endure, suffer, brook, undergo
  14. to draw (to sketch; depict with lines)
  15. to draw (picture or painting), paint
  16. to shoot (film, movie, etc.)
  17. to take (photograph, picture, etc)
  18. to last, take time
  19. to weigh (to determine the weight of an object) or to portion out a certain mass of smth.
  20. to slap, to punch, etc. (cannot be used without şillə, qapaz etc. as direct objects)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ček- (“to draw, pull”). Cognate with Crimean Tatar çekmek, Gagauz çekmää, Salar çik, Turkish çekmek and Turkmen çekmek. Compare also Chuvash шак (šak, “red lace applique on the back of a women's shirt”).

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