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dökmek

“dökmek” is a Turkish word. Its 9 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to pour, pour out
  2. to spill, shed
  3. to throw out, empty (a container)
  4. to scatter
  5. to reveal, tell, pour out
  6. to shed, drop off
  7. to pour into a mold; to cast
  8. to spend a lot of money on, spend freely
  9. to fail (the majority of students in a class)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish دوكمك (dökmek, “to pour, throw away, spill, scatter, cast”), from Proto-Turkic *tök-mek (“to pour out”). Cognate with Karakhanid تُكْماكْ (tökmēk, “to pour, shed, scatter”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (tök-, “to pour out”), Azerbaijani tökmək (“to pour”), Crimean Tatar tökmek (“to pour”), Bashkir түгеү (tügew, “to pour”), Chuvash тӑк (tăk, “to pour (intr.)”), Kazakh төгу…

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