keçmək

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic кечмәк
Roman keçmək
Perso-Arabic کچمک

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *geč (to pass)[1]. Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (käč-, to pass through), Turkish geçmek, etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ket͡ʃˈmæk], [ket͡ʃˈmæj]
  • (Absheron) IPA(key): [ket͡ʃˈmej]
  • (Tabriz) IPA(key): [ɡeʃˈmɑx][2]
  • Hyphenation: kəs‧mək

Verb

keçmək

  1. (intransitive) to pass through something
  2. (transitive) to cross
    çayı keçməkto cross the river
    Yaşıl işıq yananda, yolu keçmək olar.When the green light goes on, one may cross the street.
  3. (transitive, figuratively) to pass, leave behind
    Astaranı artıq keçmişdik, Ərdəbilə bir saat qalırdı.
    We had already left Astara behind, one hour was remaining to Ardabil.
  4. (intransitive, figuratively, with ablative) to pass (a test etc)
    sınaqdan keçməkto pass a test
  5. (intransitive) to enter, to come in
    Buyurun, keçin içəri!Please, come inside! (said to several people)
  6. (intransitive) to pass, to go away (of illness, troubles, etc)
    Qrip bir həftədən sonra keçdiThe flue went away after a week.
    Bu da keçərThis too shall pass.
  7. (intransitive) to go, to turn out, to result.
    İmtahanın necə keçdi?How did your exam go?
    Heç də yaxşı keçmədi, kəsildim.It didn't go well at all, I flunked.
  8. (intransitive, with dative) to spread (of desease), infect
    • 2016 June 16, Day.az:
      QİÇS xəstəliyi mənə ərimdən keçdi.
      I got the disease AIDS from my husband. (Literally, "The disease AIDS went over to me from my husband")
    Synonym: yoxulmaq
  9. (intransitive, with ablative) to forgive (something)
    Allah günahımdan keçsin.May God forgive my sin.

Conjugation

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *geč”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. Haneda, Koichi (2009—2010), “keçmək”, in لغات لهج هی تبریز [Vocabulary of Tabrizi Dialect] (in Persian), Tabriz: یاران, →ISBN, page 115
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