çırpınmak
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from çarpmak (“to hit, to strike, to bump”), from Proto-Turkic *čap- or Proto-Turkic *čalp- (“to hit, to steal, to plunder”),[1] morphologically çırp- + -ın- + -mak.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]çırpınmak (third-person singular simple present çırpınır)
- (intransitive) To struggle or to flutter with pain.
- (intransitive, figurative) To strive intensely to achieve a highly wanted goal.
Conjugation
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “çırp-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “çırpınmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu