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yemek

Pronunciation: /jeˈmec/

“yemek” is a Turkish word. Its 13 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to eat
  2. to require, use up, consume
  3. to bite, eat someone up
  4. to drain someone, wear someone down
  5. to receive (connotes that the thing received is a bad thing to receive)
  6. to kill
  7. to lay, have sex with, kiss, lick, suck
  8. to capture
  9. to break
  10. to fall for, to be deceived

noun

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

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یمك (yemek, “to eat, consume”), from Proto-Turkic *yē- (“to eat”). Cognates Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰘𐰃𐰘𐰇 (yéyü, “eating”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (ye-, “to eat”), Karakhanid [script needed] (yḗmēk, “to eat, destroy”), Azerbaijani yemək (“to eat”), Chuvash ҫиме (śime, “to eat”), Kazakh жеу (jew, “to eat”), Khakas чирге (çirge, “to eat”), Kyrgyz жөө (jöö, “to…

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