yemek.
to eat
Meaning & usage
to eat
Her gün iki öğün haşlanmış patates yemekten bıktım.
to require, use up, consume
to bite, eat someone up
to drain someone, wear someone down
to receive (connotes that the thing received is a bad thing to receive)
3000 TL para cezası yedim.
to kill
to lay, have sex with, kiss, lick, suck
to capture
Piyon düz ve ileri doğru hareket etse de karşı oyuncunun taşlarını çapraz olarak yer.
to break
Kumandayı yemişsiniz yine.
to fall for, to be deceived
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”).
meal, food
yemek yemek
repast
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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