sömürmek

Meaning

1. to appropriate
2. to benefit natural resources and economic values of another nation or state (see sömürge (“colony”))
3. to quaff, gulp down, swallow, devour
4. to suck in, draw inward (with mouth)
5. to exploit
6. (slang) to fuck over

Concepts

exploit

Synonyms

çiğnemek

dolandırmak

istismar etmek

kahretmek

kandırmak

ovalamak

ovmak

💆

sırtından geçinmek

Translations

exploiter

gruger

ausbeuten

ausnützen

schinden

εκμεταλλεύομαι

approfittare

sfruttare

avvantaggiarsi

azione eroica

impresa

mungere

🥛

mêtin

exploiteren

uitbuiten

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: سومرمك

Cognate with Karakhanid:

Cognate with Azerbaijani: sümürmək

Cognate with Bashkir: һемереү

Cognate with Chagatai:

Cognate with Chuvash: сим

Cognate with Kazakh: сіміру

Cognate with Uyghur: سۈمۈرمەك

Cognate with Uzbek: simirmoq

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish سومرمك (sümürmek, “to quaff, to devour”), causative form of Proto-Turkic *simü-, *sümü-. It is sümürmek in some dialects.
Cognates
Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (simürmēk, “to gulp down, swallow”), Azerbaijani sümürmək (“to suck”), Bashkir һемереү (hemerew, “to drink”), Chagatai [script needed] (sümürmek, “to drink”), Chuvash сим (sim, “honey drink”), Kazakh сіміру (sımıru, “to drink in one gulp”), Uyghur سۈمۈرمەك (sümürmek, “to sip, suck in”), Uzbek simirmoq (“to draw, take in”).