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eğmek.

to lean, tilt, or bend

5 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

verb/eːˈmec/
  1. to lean, tilt, or bend

    transitive
  2. to bend, to curve

    transitive
  3. to hurry

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اگمك (eğmek, “to bend, curve, bow”), from Old Anatolian Turkish اكمك (egmek), from Proto-Turkic *eg- (“to bend”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰏 (eg-, “to bend”), Azerbaijani əymək (“to bend, tilt”), Bashkir эйеү (eyew, “to bend”), Chuvash ав (av, “to bend”), Kazakh ию (ıyyuw, “to bend”), Kyrgyz ийүү (iyüü, “to bend”), Southern Altai ийер (iyer, “to bend”), Turkmen egmek (“to bend, bow”), Tuvan ээр (eer, “to bend, wrap”), Uzbek egmoq (“to fold, bend”), Yakut иэх (iex, “to bend”).

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