germek

== Turkish == === Etymology === From Ottoman Turkish كرمك (germek, “to stretch, tight, tighten, spread out”), from Proto-Turkic *ker- (“to spread out, to hang”). === Verb === germek (third-person singular simple present gerer) (transitive) to stretch, strain, tighten, draw, lengthen (by pulling) (transitive) to stretch out, extend (transitive) to strain, tauten (transitive) make (nerves, relations) tense (transitive) to distress, to cause strain or anxiety to someone, to creep out ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (to stretch, strain, tighten, lengthen): uzatmak, kasmak, çekmek (to stretch out): uzatmak (to tauten): kasmak ==== Derived terms ==== === References === Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ker-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 735 Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كرمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1540 Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*ger-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill