patlamak
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, pat (“boom!”) + -la.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]patlamak (third-person singular simple present patlar) (intransitive)
- To explode, blast, to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
- to burst open, to tear open
- 1972, Orhan Kemal, Orhan Kemalʼin İkbal Kahvesi:
- Gözlerim gene ayakkabılarıma kaydı, yanları patlamıştı.
- My eyes slipped back to my shoes again, their sides had burst open.
- to split open, to crack open
- Synonym: yarılmak
- to bud, to sprout, to blossom
- Tomurcuklar patladı.
- The buds sprouted.
- to deflate
- (figurative) to break out (of a danger, problem etc.)
- 2006, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Savaş yazıları:1939-1943, volume 1:
- Harp patlıyor ve askerlere edebiyatçılık, edebiyatçılara askerlik yapmak düşüyor.
- War is breaking out, and it falls to the soldiers to act like men of letters, and to men of letters to act like soldiers.
- (figurative) To make a violent or emotional outburst, to snap.
- to burst out laughing
- Near-synonym: gülmek
- (figurative) a sudden, loud noise being heard
- (figurative) to cost someone [with dative]
- (slang) To cum, to ejaculate.
- (figurative) To get extremely bored.
- 1938, Osman Cemal Kaygılı, Çingeneler:
- Eğer bunlar, arada sırada böyle çalgılı, ahenkli kavgalar edip de sinirlerinde birikmiş olan gerginlikleri gevşetmeseler sanıyorum ki, istimi fazla gelmiş kazanlar gibi hırslarından patlayacaklar.
- If they didn't occasionally have such musical, harmonious fights to relieve the tension built up in their nerves, I believe they would burst from their ambitions, like boilers with too much steam.
- (colloquial) to fumble, fail, blunder
- Synonyms: tökezlemek, gümlemek, sınıfta kalmak
Conjugation
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “patlamak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “patlamak”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “patlamak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük