# چكمك
## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ček-

### Verb

چَكْمَكْ (çäkmäk)
* (transitive) to pull, to drag
* (transitive) to extend, to stretch
* (transitive) to eat, to drink
* (transitive) to weigh
    Synonyms: دَكَمَكْ (däŋämäk), طرتمق (dartmaq)
* (transitive) to snatch
* (transitive) to endure, to suffer, to go through

#### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: çəkmək
* Qashqai: چكمك
* Gagauz: çekmää
* Ottoman Turkish: چكمك (çekmek)
** Turkish: çekmek
** →? Crimean Tatar: çekmek

### References

* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çekmek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çekmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, pages 918-919
* “çekmek”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977, page 43
* Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) “ček”, in A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 111

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish چَكْمَكْ (çäkmäk), from Proto-Turkic *ček- (“to pull toward oneself”); cognate with Azerbaijani çəkmək, Chuvash ҫак (śak), Kazakh шегу (şegu), Kyrgyz чегүү (cegüü), Salar çik, Turkmen çekmek and Uzbek chekmoq.

### Verb

چكمك • (çekmek)
* to draw, pull, haul, to apply force to something so it comes towards one
* to drag, draw, to pull along a surface, sometimes with difficulty
* to attract, draw, to pull towards an object or a person without touching
* to extract, draw out, pull out, to remove forcibly from a fixed position
* to draw, trace, delineate, to sketch something lightly or with care
    Synonym: چیزمك (çizmek)
* to imbibe, suck up, drink in, to absorb a liquid, like a sponge
* to bear, endure, support, to tolerate or put up with something unpleasant
    Synonyms: طاشیمق (taşımak), گوتورمك (götürmek)

#### Derived terms

* ال چكمك (el çekmek, “to relinquish”)
* انفیه چكمك (enfiye çekmek, “to take snuff”)
* دیزگین چكمك (dizgin çekmek, “to draw rein”)
* ضرر چكمك (zarar çekmek, “to suffer harm or loss”)
* قولاق چكمك (kulak çekmek, “to scold”)
* كورك چكمك (kürek çekmek, “to row”)
* چكشمك (çekişmek, “to debate, quarrel”)
* چكلمك (çekilmek, “to take off, remove”)
* چكمه (çekme, “a thing pulled out”)
* چكنمك (çekinmek, “to draw as a garment”)
* چكیش (çekiş, “mode of pulling”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: çekmek
* →? Crimean Tatar: çekmek

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çekmek2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 918
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چكمك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 185b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چكمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 472
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Trahere”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1685
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چكمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 1631-1632
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çek-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چكمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 726