qalamaq

Azerbaijani

FWOTD – 25 January 2024
Other scripts
Cyrillic галамаг
Abjad قالاماق

Etymology

From Common Turkic *kāla- (to pile up, to stack).[1] The fire-related sense developed from the sense "to heap up firewood".

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡɑɫɑˈmɑx]
  • Hyphenation: qa‧la‧maq
  • (file)

Verb

qalamaq (transitive)

  1. to heap, to pile in a heap, to stack, to stack up
    • 2012, Elvüsal Məmmədov, transl., Dini-mədəni islam fikri: tənqidi mülahizələr [Our Intellectual Heritage], translation of تُرَاثُنَا ٱلْفِكْرِيُّ فِي مِيزَانِ ٱلشَّرْعِ وَٱلْعَقْلِ [turāṯunā l-fikriyyu fī mīzāni š-šarʕi wa-l-ʕaqli] by Mohammed al-Ghazali, page 202:
      Abbasi xəlifələrinin beş əsr ərzində yığdıqlarını monqollar üst-üstə qaladılar və xəzinələrdən ibarət dağ əmələ gəldi.
      The Mongols piled up what the Abbasid caliphs had accumulated over five centuries, and a mountain consisting of treasures was formed.
  2. to kindle, to make, to start (fire)
    Synonym: çatmaq
    sobanı qalamaqto fire the oven
    tonqal qalamaqto make a bonfire
    ocaq qalamaqto make fire in a stove or in a hearth
    oda qalamaq (figurative)to put to the torch
    • 1967, Akram Aylisli, Tənha narın nağılı :
      Elə ki, çaydanlar qaynadı, qara, hisli neft pilətələri qapıların qabağından götürüldü, (axı, o şəhərdə ocaq qalamağa odun yox idi, samovar salmağa kömür yox idi) elə ki, çaylar içildi, çörəklər yeyildi, taxta pilləkənlərin üstündə bir də taqqıltı düşürdü.
      As soon as the teapots began to boil, the black, sooty oil stoves were removed from the front of the doors, (after all, there was no wood to build a fire with in the city, no coal for heating the samovar); as soon as the teas were drunk and the breads were eaten, there was a clatter on the wooden stairs.

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References

  1. Levitskaja, L. S., Dybo, A. V., Rassadin, V. I. (1997) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Jazyki russkoj kulʹtury, pages 228-229

Further reading

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Common Turkic *kāla- (to pile up, to stack).

Verb

qalamaq

  1. to build a wall

Conjugation

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