dökmek

Meaning

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

Frequency

C2
Etymology

In summary

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 (tögu, “to pour”), Khakas тӧгерге (tögerge, “to pour”), Kyrgyz төгүү (tögüü, “to pour”), Southern Altai тӧк- (tök-, “to pour”), Turkmen dökmek (“to pour”), Tuvan төгер (töger, “to pour”), Uyghur تۆكمەك (tökmek, “to pour out”), Uzbek toʻkmoq (“to pour”), Yakut тох (toq, “to pour, spill, throw out”).

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