germek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish كرمك (germek, to stretch, tight, tighten, spread out), from Proto-Turkic *ger- (to spread out, to hang).

Verb

germek (third-person singular simple present gerer)

  1. (transitive) to stretch, strain, tighten, draw, lengthen (by pulling)
  2. (transitive) to stretch out, extend
  3. (transitive) to strain, tauten, make (nerves, relations) tense

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • (to stretch, strain, tighten, lengthen): uzatmak, kasmak, çekmek
  • (to stretch out): uzatmak
  • (to tauten): kasmak

References

  • Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *ger-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ker-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 735
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