söykəmək

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *söje- (“to prop, lean, support”).[1] Cognate wthh Chuvash сӗвен (sĕven, “to stick to, cling to”), etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sœjkæˈmæk], [sœjkæˈmæj]
  • Hyphenation: söy‧kə‧mək
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Verb

söykəmək

  1. (ditransitive) to put (to), to set (against, to), rest (against)
    taxtanı divara söykəmək ― to put/rest a plank against the wall
    belini stula söykəmək ― to lean one's back against the chair
    Synonyms: dayamaq, dirəmək

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

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