See also: əzmək

Crimean Tatar

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ẹŕ-. Compare Turkish ezmek (to crush), Azerbaijani əzmək.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ez‧mek

Verb

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ezmek

  1. to crush, to press

Derived terms

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Turkish

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Etymology

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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 (iźew, to knead, press), Chuvash ирме (irme, to knead), Kazakh езу (ezu, to knead, dilute), Kyrgyz эзүү (ezüü, to squeeze, compress), Southern Altai эс- (es-, to clean, peel), Turkmen ezmek (to wet, moisten, opress), Uyghur ئەزمەك (ezmek, to press, grind, pound), Uzbek ezmoq (to knead).

Verb

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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
  5. (transitive, slang) to spend lavishly a large sum of money
    10k ezdiğimiz gecenin sabahıthe morning after of the night we blew 10 grand

Conjugation

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References

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  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