See also: əmmək

Turkish edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Verb edit

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 edit

Related terms edit

References edit

  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