çatmak
Turkish
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to stack, pile (arms); to prop (poles, etc.) together
- (transitive) to put up (a framework of poles or timbers)
- (transitive) to tie on (a cloth worn around the forehead)
- (transitive) to knit (one's brows)
- (intransitive) to meet with, come up against, run up against (someone or something unpleasant)
- (intransitive) to encounter, chance upon (someone)
- (intransitive) to scold, berate
- (intransitive) to hit, bump
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish چاتمق (bring together) inherited from Proto-Turkic *čat- (bring together).
Origin
Proto-Turkic
*čat-
Gloss
bring together