to offer incense, (generally): to give sacrificial offerings · to complain · smoked a pipe
çekim: geçmiş קיטרת
köken: From the Hebrew root ק־ט־ר (q-t-r), related to burning or smoking. See also Arabic قَطَرَ (qaṭara, “to drip, to distill”). The sense "to complain" is borrowed from Yiddish קאָטערן (kotern, “to complain”), from Yiddish קאָטער (koter, “tomcat”), in reference to their wailing cries.