yemek

Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [jɛˈmɛc]
  • Hyphenation: ye‧mek

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish یمك (yemek, to eat, consume), from Proto-Turkic *yē- (to eat).[1]

Verb

yemek (third-person singular simple present yer)

  1. (transitive) to eat
    Her gün iki öğün haşlanmış patates yemekten bıktım.
    I'm tired of eating boiled potatoes twice every day.
  2. (transitive) to require, use up, consume
  3. (transitive, of an insect) to bite, eat someone up
  4. (transitive) to drain, wear someone down, take a lot out of someone
  5. (transitive, slang) to kill
  6. (transitive, slang) to lay, have sex with, kiss, lick, suck
  7. (transitive, chess) to capture
    Piyon düz ve ileri doğru hareket etse de karşı oyuncunun taşlarını çapraz olarak yer.
    Even though the pawn moves straight and forward, it captures the opponent pieces diagonally.
  8. (transitive, slang) to break (usually a low-cost household item)
    Kumandayı yemişsiniz yine.
    So you broke the TV remote again.
  9. (transitive) to take the bait
Conjugation
Derived terms
(idiomatic expressions)
(derogatory, ironic) yediği önünde yemediği arkasında olmakto live off the fat of the land
yeme de yanında yat (a meal) fit for a king)
(slang) kafayı yemekgo nuts

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish یمك (yemek, food, meal). Cognate to Kipchak [Arabic needed] (yemek, food), ultimately derived from Proto-Turkic *jē- (to eat), see etymology 1 above.

Noun

yemek (definite accusative yemeği, plural yemekler)

  1. meal, food
  2. repast
  3. dish, particular kind of food
Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

See also

References

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

Further reading

  • yemek in Reverso (Turkish-English)
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