salmak

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish صالمق (salmak), from Old Anatolian Turkish صالمق (salmaq), from Proto-Turkic *sal- (“to put, throw, drop, lower”).

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (sal-, “to let go, free, lower”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (sal-, “to swing”), Azerbaijani salmaq (“to drop, lower”), 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.

• IPA^(key): /saɫˈmak/
• Hyphenation: sal‧mak

salmak (third-person singular simple present salar)

1. (transitive) to set free, let go, release

   Synonym: bırakmak

   Antonym: tutmak

   kuş salmak ― to release a bird

2. (transitive) to release, to emit

   duman salmak ― to release smoke

3. (transitive, of a plant) to put out, put forth (shoots, roots)

   kök salmak ― to radicate

4. (transitive) to send, dispatch

   Synonyms: göndermek, yollamak

5. (transitive) to let attack, sic

   Synonym: saldırtmak

6. (transitive) to ignore, neglect, omit, become careless

   Synonym: boşlamak

7. (transitive) to put, to add

   Synonyms: koymak, katmak

8. (transitive) to tax
9. (transitive) to attack

   Synonym: saldırmak

10. (intransitive, euphemistic) to piss
11. (transitive) to dangle, to hang down

    Synonym: sarkıtmak

• “salmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “salmak”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “salmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük