to stop doing something, to desist, to leave off (to interrupt or cease an action) · to stop (to lose the ability to use a particular sense) · to stop (to lose a particular trait; of an action, to cease)
çekim: geçmiş przestano
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Balto-Slavic *per Proto-Slavic *per- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *stā́ˀtei Proto-Slavic *stati Proto-Slavic *perstati Old Polish przestać Polish przestać Inherited from Old Polish przestać (“to stop”). By surface analysis, prze- + stać (“to happen”).
From Middle Dutch cappen. Further origin unsettled. Apparently related to German Low German kappen (“to clip, cut”), German kappen (“to clip, cut”), English chap and chop; thus it would also be distantly related to tjappen. The slang sense may have a distinct (unknown) etymology.