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Cyrillic алмаг
Abjad آلماق

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *ạl- (to take). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰞 ( /⁠al-⁠/) Turkish almak, Chuvash ил (il), etc.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ɑɫˈmɑχ]
  • Audio (Baku):(file)
  • Hyphenation: al‧maq

Verb

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almaq

  1. (ditransitive) to take
    Synonym: götürmək
    Ovçu tüfəngini əlinə aldı.
    The hunter took his riffle.
    (literally, “The hunter took his riffle in the hand.”)
  2. (ditransitive) to buy
    Qonşu köhnə maşınını satdı, təzəsini aldı.The neighbour sold his old car, [and] bought a new one.
  3. (transitive) to receive, get
    Mən yaxşı maaş alıram.I get a good salary.
    O xaricdən pul alır.S/he receives money from abroad.
    Sənin göndərdiyin məktubu almadım.I did not receive the letter you sent.
  4. (transitive) to wed a woman
    Synonym: evlənmək
  5. (ditransitive) to arrange for someone else to wed a woman
    Synonym: evləndirmək
    Sənə hansı gözəli desən, alaram.[1]I shall take for you whichever beautiful (girl) you say.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Compound verbs

References

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  1. ^ Authier, Gilles (2012) “New strategies for relative clauses in Azeri and Apsheron Tat”, in Gast, Volker, editors, Clause Linkage in Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs; 249), Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN

Khalaj

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Perso-Arabic اَلماق

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *ạl-.

Pronunciation

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  • (Xarrâbî) IPA(key): [alˈmaq]

Verb

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almaq (third-person singular aorist alır, second person singular imperative alı)

  1. to take

Conjugation

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References

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  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1980) Wörterbuch des Chaladsch (Dialekt von Charrab) [Khalaj dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó