silmek.
to wipe, wipe up, wipe away
Meaning & usage
to wipe, wipe up, wipe away
to rub sth. on, spread something on/over; to smear sth. on
to clean, sweep, rub, rub off, furbish
to erase, rub out
to delete, uninstall
to eat up every morsel of
to destroy, sweep everything away; to make a clean sweep of, get rid of, rule out
Where this word comes from
From Ottoman Turkish سلمك (silmek, “to wipe, wash and scrub, rub off or out”), from Proto-Turkic *sīl- (“to wipe, rub”). Cognates Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (sil-, “to rub”), Karakhanid [script needed] (sil-, “to wipe”), Azerbaijani silmək (“to wipe, erase”), Bashkir һылау (hılaw, “to smear”), Chuvash шӑлма (šălma, “to sweep, wipe, rub”), Kazakh сылау (sılaw, “to smear, coat”), Kyrgyz сылоо (sıloo), Southern Altai сылар (sïlar, “to clean, rub, peel”), Turkmen sɨ̄lmak (“to wipe”), Tuvan силиир (siliir, “to become clean”), Uzbek silamoq (“to press, massage”).
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