emmek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اممك‎ (emmek, “to suck, imbibe by sucking”), from Proto-Turkic *em- (“to suck”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɛˈmːɛc]
  • Hyphenation: em‧mek

Verb

emmek (third-person singular simple present emer)

  1. (transitive) to suck
    Vampirlerkan emenhayalîyaratıklardır. ― Vampires are imaginary blood sucking creatures.
  2. (transitive) to absorb
  3. (transitive) to milk, mulct, bleed

Conjugation

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*em-ig, *em-ček”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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