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yemek.

to eat

5 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

verb/jeˈmec/[je̞ˈmɛc]
  1. to eat

    transitive
    Her gün iki öğün haşlanmış patates yemekten bıktım.
  2. to require, use up, consume

    transitive
  3. to bite, eat someone up

    transitive
  4. to drain someone, wear someone down

    transitive
  5. to receive (connotes that the thing received is a bad thing to receive)

    slang · transitive
    3000 TL para cezası yedim.
  6. to kill

    slang · transitive
  7. to lay, have sex with, kiss, lick, suck

    slang · transitive
  8. to capture

    transitive
    Piyon düz ve ileri doğru hareket etse de karşı oyuncunun taşlarını çapraz olarak yer.
  9. to break

    slang · transitive
    Kumandayı yemişsiniz yine.
  10. to fall for, to be deceived

    transitive
    Yedi yalanı.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یمك (yemek, “to eat, consume”), from Proto-Turkic *yē- (“to eat”). Cognates Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰘𐰃𐰘𐰇 (yéyü, “eating”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (ye-, “to eat”), Karakhanid [script needed] (yḗmēk, “to eat, destroy”), Azerbaijani yemək (“to eat”), Chuvash ҫиме (śime, “to eat”), Kazakh жеу (jew, “to eat”), Khakas чирге (çirge, “to eat”), Kyrgyz жөө (jöö, “to eat”), Southern Altai јиир (ǰiir, “to eat”), Turkmen iýmek (“to eat”), Tuvan чиир (çiir, “to eat”), Uyghur يېمەك (yëmek, “to eat”), Uzbek yemoq (“to eat”), Yakut сиэ (sie, “to eat”).

noun/jeˈmec/[je̞ˈmɛc]
  1. meal, food

    yemek yemek
  2. repast

  3. dish, particular kind of food

Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish یمك (yemek, “food, meal”). Cognate to Kipchak [Arabic needed] (yemek, “food”), ultimately derived from Proto-Turkic *yē- (“to eat”), see etymology 1 above.

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