atmaq

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic атмаг
Roman atmaq
Perso-Arabic آتماق‎

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ạt- (“to throw, shoot”) [1] Cognate with Turkish Turkish atmak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɑtˈmɑχ]
  • Hyphenation: at‧maq

Verb

atmaq

  1. (transitive) to throw
    Sizdən kim günahsızdırsa, qadına birinci daş atsın. (Yəhya 8:7)
    Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her. (John 8:32)
    (literally, “May whoever of you, that is without sin, throw the first stone at the woman”)
    ilk daşı atmaq ― To throw the first stone
    qırağa atmaq ― To throw off, to cast away, to cast aside
    zibil atmaq ― To throw garbage
  2. (transitive) to quit doing smth.
    siqareti atmaq; siqaret çəkməyi atmaq ― to quit smoking
    Synonym: tərk etmək (abandon, quit)
  3. (transitive) to put
    əlini cibinə atmaq ― To put a hand into the pocket
  4. (intransitive, often used with dative) to shoot, shell
    • 2014 May 23, “Nazirlik Füzulidəki atışmanın təfərrüatını açıqladı”, in Axar.az‎, retrieved January 28, 2014:
      Vəliyəd İsmayılovun sözlərinə görə, hər gün atırlar.
      According to Vəliyəd İsmayılov, they shoot every day.
    Onlar bizə atırlar, biz də onlara. ― They shoot at us, and we at them.
    Synonym: güllə atmaq (to shoot)
  5. (transitive) to launch (a missile, etc)
    raket atmaq ― to launch a missile
  6. (transitive) to abandon, to ditch
    • 2014 January 28, “Bakıda çoxlarının tanıdığı dilənçi qoca: "Halal pul budur, bala"”, in Milli.az‎:
      Elə türməyə düşən kimi ailəm də məni atdı.
      As soon as I ended up in jail, my family abandoned me
  7. (transitive, colloquial) to fool, swindle, defraud
    • 2009 October 11, Устаман, “Хәјанәт Ҝеҹәси”, in Bakıllılar.az‎, retrieved January 17, 2018:
      О мал ҝәтирән адамлар кимдиләр ки, елә? Ҝәлсәнә онлары “атаг”!
      Who are those people bringing goods, anyway? We should "swindle" (lit. 'ditch') them!
    Synonym: fırıldaq etmək (swindle)
  8. (intransitive) to pass the buck, to give the blame to someone
    • 2017 September 6, İnarə Rafiqqızı, Virtualaz.org‎, retrieved January 22, 2018:
      O qətli törədib, mənim üstümə atmaq istədi
      S/he commited the murder, and wanted to pass the buck to me
  9. (intransitive, slang, vulgar) to masturbate

Conjugation

References

  1. ↑ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*p`ā̀t`à”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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