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Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish چاتمق (çatmak, to bring together), from Proto-Turkic *čat- (to bring together). Cognate with Karakhanid جَتْماقْ (čatmāq).

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çatmak (third-person singular simple present çatar)

  1. (transitive) to stack, pile (arms); to prop (poles, etc.) together
  2. (transitive) to put up (a framework of poles or timbers)
  3. (transitive) to tie on (a cloth worn around the forehead)
  4. (transitive) to knit (one's brows)
  5. (intransitive, with dative case) to meet with, come up against, run up against (someone or something unpleasant)
  6. (intransitive, with dative case) to encounter, chance upon (someone)
  7. (intransitive) to scold, berate
  8. (intransitive) to hit, bump

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