alacak

Turkish

Etymology

From almak, from Proto-Turkic *al- (“to take”). Cognate with dialectal Kazakh алажақ (alajaq).

Pronunciation

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Noun

alacak (definite accusative alacağı, plural alacaklar)

1. credit, money owed
2. (law) claim
3. (agriculture) a bale loader, a machine that picks up bales with a fork

Derived terms

• alacaklı

Verb

alacak

1. third-person singular indicative future of almak

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “alacak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 187
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “almak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Robert Avery et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN