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tutmaq

Pronunciation: [tutˈmɑχ]

“tutmaq” is an Azerbaijani word. Its 17 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to hold
  2. to take hold of; to grip; to grab
  3. to catch (to capture or snare)
  4. to catch (to be infected by)
  5. arrest, apprehend
  6. to assume (mostly used in form of first-person plural imperative + 'ki', i.e. 'tutaq ki', 'let's assume that')
  7. to rent, hire
  8. to occupy, take control of (a territory)
  9. to hold, occupy (a position, office etc)
  10. to take, adopt, have (a stance or opininion regarding an issue)
  11. to seize, overcome (of feelings)
  12. to pick up, seduce (only used in qız tutmaq)
  13. to take, to take root
  14. to salt, to pickle, to corn, to preserve for the winter
  15. to get, understand
  16. to cheer, to root for
  17. to receive, to pick up (a signal); to have reception

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طوتمق (dutmaq), from Proto-Turkic *tut- (“to grasp”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐱃𐰆𐱃 (tut-, “to keep, catch, own”), Turkish tutmak (“to catch, keep”), Bashkir тотоу (totow, “to keep, hold”), Chuvash тытма (tytma, “to keep, hold”), Khakas & Shor тударға (tudarğa, “to keep, hold, catch, seize, rule, hold back”), Kyrgyz тутуу (tutuu, “to catch”), Turkmen tutmak (“to…

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