emmek

See also: əmmək

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
    Vampirler kan emen hayalî yaratıklardır.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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