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sağmak

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to milk (an animal)
  2. (figuratively, transitive) to milk, to exploit
  3. (figuratively, slang, transitive) to swindle, milk, deceive

Concepts

Pronounced as (IPA)
[s̪aːˈmak]
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish صاغمق (sağmak, “to milk, get, extract”), from Proto-Turkic *sag- (“to milk”). Cognate with Azerbaijani sağmaq (“to milk”), Kazakh сауу (sauu, “to milk”), Turkmen sagmak (“to milk”), Tuvan саар (saar, “to milk”), Uzbek sogʻmoq (“to milk”), Yakut ыа (ïa, “to milk”).

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