çekmää

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish چَكْمَكْ (çäkmäk), from Proto-Turkic *ček- (“to draw, pull”),^[1] the same root of Azerbaijani çəkmək and Turkish çekmek.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃʲecmæː/
• Hyphenation: çek‧mää

çekmää (third-person singular simple present çeker)

1. (ditransitive) to pull, to drag

   kendinä çekti onu

   he pulled it towards himself

2. (transitive) to snatch
3. (transitive) to draw in, to suck in

   içinä çekmää

   to suck into itself

4. (transitive) to inhale (a gas or its source)

   tütün çekmää

   to smoke a tobacco product

   (literally, “to inhale tobacco”)

5. (transitive) to draw water from a well
6. (transitive, figurative) to endure, to go through, to suffer

   pek zorluk hem güçlük çektik biz

   we endured a lot of hardships

7. (transitive) to draw (a line)

   çizi çekmää

   to draw a line

8. (transitive) to weigh
9. (transitive) to row

   çek suyu altına

   row for yourself

10. (transitive) to take a photo
11. (transitive) to draw a card from a deck
12. (transitive, physics) to attract, to pull physically
13. (transitive, figurative) to attract emotionally or romantically

• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “çекмää”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 536
• Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “çekmää”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 45