kesilmek

Crimean Tatar

Other scripts
Cyrillic	кесильмек
Roman

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ke‧sil‧mek

Verb

kesilmek

1. passive of kesmek

References

• “kesilmek”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish كسلمك (kesilmek), equivalent to kes- ‎ -il.

Verb

kesilmek (third-person singular simple present kesilir)

1. passive of kesmek: to be cut, etc.
2. (figuratively) to be cut off, to be interrupted
   • 1938 July 22, headline in Kurun page 1:

     Rus-Japon müzakereleri kesildi

     Russian-Japanese talks broken off

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كسلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1549