silmek
Meaning
- (transitive) to wipe, wipe up, wipe away
- (transitive) to rub sth. on, spread something on/over; to smear sth. on
- (transitive) to clean, sweep, rub, rub off, furbish
- (transitive) to erase, rub out
- (transitive) to delete, uninstall
- (transitive) to eat up every morsel of
- (transitive) to destroy, sweep everything away; to make a clean sweep of, get rid of, rule out
Concepts
Synonyms
kaşağılamak
üstünü çizmek
üzerini çizmek
vurup kesmek
vurup koparmak
silerek çıkarmak
silip atmak
gebrelemek
mahvetnnek
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Etymology
In summary
From Ottoman Turkish سلمك (silmek, “to wipe, wash and scrub, rub off or out”), from Proto-Turkic *sīl- (“to wipe, rub”). Cognates Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (sil-, “to rub”), Karakhanid [script needed] (sil-, “to wipe”), Azerbaijani silmək (“to wipe, erase”), Bashkir һылау (hılaw, “to smear”), Chuvash шӑлма (šălma, “to sweep, wipe, rub”), Kazakh сылау (sylau, “to smear, coat”), Kyrgyz сылоо (sıloo), Southern Altai сил- (sil-, “to rub off”), Turkmen sɨ̄lmak (“to wipe”), Tuvan силиир (siliir, “to become clean”), Uzbek silamoq (“to press, massage”).
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