ekmek

Meaning

Noun

1. bread
2. (figuratively) one's source of money
3. daily bread, source of one's sustenance

Verb

1. (transitive) to sow, to plant
2. (transitive) to utilize soil for agriculture
3. (ditransitive) to sprinkle, to scatter
4. (colloquial, transitive) to give somebody the slip, to evade, to ditch
5. (colloquial, transitive) to waste money
6. (colloquial, transitive) to beat in a race

Concepts

bread

🍞

plant

🌱

sow

loaf

farm

implant

seed

sough

baked goods

pav

bread

🍞

caudle

food

🍽️

livelihood

loaf of bread

rye

rye bread

staff of life

Synonyms

dikmek

serpmek

saçmak

sıkmak

terk etmek

tohum ekmek

ekmek somunu

ekim yapmak

bırakıp gitmek

aşılamak

ekmek parası

dökmek

Translations

Brot

🍞

pain

🍞

pão

🍞

pan

🍞

pane

🍞

ψωμί

brood

🍞

pa

🍞

panis

🍞

خبز

άρτος

pan

semer

Pronounced as (IPA)

[e̞c.ˈme̞c]

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: اكمك

Cognate with Azerbaijani: əkmək

Cognate with Southern Altai: эк-

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish اكمك (ekmek), from Old Anatolian Turkish اتمك (etmek), from Proto-Common Turkic *etmek. The medial consonant -t- is irregularly changed to -k- to avoid homophony with the verb etmek (“to do”) as expected.

Sentences

Ne kadar ekmek , o kadar köfte .

The more bread, the more meatballs.