ezmek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ازمك (ezmek, to crush, pound, bruise), from Proto-Turkic *ẹŕ-.[1]

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (ez-, to scratch, scrape), Azerbaijani əzmək (to crush), Bashkir иҙеү (iðew, to knead, press), Chuvash ирме (irme, to knead), Kazakh езу (ezw, to knead, dilute), Turkmen ezmek (to wet, moisten, opress), Uyghur ئەزمەك (ezmek, to press, grind, pound), Uzbek ezmoq (to knead).

Verb

ezmek (third-person singular simple present ezer)

  1. (transitive) to crush, squash, knead, press
  2. (transitive) to grind, triturate
  3. (transitive) to oppress, grind down, beat down, trample on
  4. (transitive) to defeat, crush, beat down

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • ezme
  • eziş
  • ezici
  • ezik
  • ezinti
  • ezdirmek
  • ezilmek
  • ezmemek
  • ezememek
  • ezebilmek

References

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