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TURKISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

burmak.

To twist something, to hold something from both ends and turn it in opposite directions; to wring, to pirl, to screw.

6 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

verb/buɾˈmak/
  1. To twist something, to hold something from both ends and turn it in opposite directions; to wring, to pirl, to screw.

    transitive
  2. To castrate.

    transitive
  3. To give the mouth an acrid or bitter taste, or a puckering or drying sensation, such as after eating an unripe persimmon or a quince.

    transitive
  4. (of stomach, of bowels) To hurt, to twinge, to gripe.

    intransitive
  5. To hurt, to injure.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بورمق (burmaḳ, “to twist or screw, to wring, to strangle, to castrate, for the bowels to gripe”), from Proto-Turkic *bür- or *bur- (“to twist, to wring”). Possibly evolved from the form Proto-Turkic *bügür-, which was derived from Proto-Turkic *bük- (“intransitive; to be squeezed, to be strangled”).

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