Turkish

Verb

çekmek ‎(third-person singular simple present çeker)

1. (transitive) to pull
2. (transitive) to draw, haul, drag, tug
3. (transitive) to attract, draw
4. (transitive) to suck in, pull in, draw in
5. (transitive) to suck, absorb
6. (transitive) to bear, endure, put up with, suffer, brook, undergo
7. (transitive, with ablative case) to withdraw
8. (transitive) to inflect, conjugate
9. (intransitive) to last, take time
10. (intransitive) to weigh, have a weight of
11. (intransitive) to shrink
12. (intransitive) to take after, resemble

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to pull, draw, drag, tug): asılmak, sürümek, germek
• (to suck, absorb): emmek
• (to bear, endure): kaldırmak, katlanmak, dayanmak
• (to weigh): tartmak
• (to take after, resemble): benzemek

Antonyms

• itmek

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 413