къалмакъ

Kumyk

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kiāl-mak (“to stay behind, remain”).

Verb

къалмакъ • (qalmaq)

to stay
to remain, to be left
to be postponed, to be left for a later point
expresses completeness, single occurrence or unexpectedness of an action; the lexical meaning is expressed by a preceding converb

Further reading

Бамматов Б.Г., editor (2013), “къалмакъ”, in Кумыкско-русский словарь [Kumyk–Russian dictionary], Makhachkala: ИЯЛИ ДНЦ РАН

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