salmaq

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		салмаг
Abjad		سالماق

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sal- (“to put, throw, drop, lower”).

Cognates

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (sal-, “to let go, free, lower”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (sal-, “to swing”) Turkish salmak (“set free, put out”), Bashkir һалыу (halıw, “to put”), Crimean Tatar salmaq (“to put”), Chuvash сулма (sulma, “to swing, throw, put, impose”), Kyrgyz салуу (saluu), Turkmen salmak (“to put, place”), Tuvan салыр (salır, “to put, place, let go”), Uzbek solmoq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɑɫˈmɑχ]
• Hyphenation: sal‧maq

Verb

salmaq

1. (transitive) to put, to put in
   • 2012 December, Salatın Əhmədli, “Heyva çiçəkləri”, in Azadinform.az‎^[1]:

     Ana əlini cibinə saldı. Cibində həmişə xırda pullar olurdu

     Mother put her hand into the pocket. She used to have change in there.

   Synonyms: qoymaq, soxmaq

2. (transitive) to stick in

   flaş kartı kompyuterə salmaq

   to stick in the flash [memory] card into a computer

   Synonyms: soxmaq (push in), taxmaq (put onto)

3. (transitive) to drop
   • 2014 June, “Yəhudi xalqından 4 pritça - TƏRCÜMƏ”, in Ana.az‎^[2]:

     Vaxtın tamam olmağına iki gün qalmış işə başladı, amma əlləri elə əsdi ki, tacı yerə saldı

     When there were two days left, he began the work, but his hands were shaking that much, that he dropped the crown to the ground

4. (transitive) to found, to lay a foundation

   şəhər/kənd salmaq

   to found a city/village

   Synonyms: təsis etmək, təməlini qoymaq, əsasını qoymaq

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Crimean Tatar

Verb

salmaq

1. to put