susamak

Meaning

1. (intransitive) To feel the need to drink water, to be thirsty, to thirst.
2. (broadly,figuratively,intransitive,with-dative) To strongly want something lacking, to long for, to pine for.

Hyphenated as

su‧sa‧mak

Pronounced as (IPA)

/su.saˈmak/

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صوسامق (ṣusamaḳ, “to be or become thirsty, to thirst”), from Proto-Turkic *sub (“water”), with the suffix *-sa, morphologically su (“water”) + -sa- (“derives verbs from nouns and adjectives”) + -mak. Cognate with Azerbaijani susamaq, Turkmen suwsamak, Uzbek suvsamoq.