sürmek

Meaning

1. (transitive,with-dative) To operate a wheeled vehicle; to drive, to ride.
2. (intransitive) To continue to happen, to go on, to last, to take a certain amount of time.
3. (transitive,with-dative) (of animals) To huddle before one and compel to move forward; to drive.
4. (transitive,with-dative) To push forward, to send, to drive.
5. (transitive,with-dative) (of a container or a cooking utensil) To hold over or to place on fire, a stove or in an oven.
6. (transitive,with-dative) To cause to touch, to make touch.
7. (transitive,with-dative) To exile, send into exile, to expel, to cast out, to banish.
8. (transitive,with-dative) To spread something on a surface in a thin layer; to rub, to smear, to apply.
9. (transitive,with-dative) To put on the market; to put up for sale, to launch, to release, to make available for purchase.
10. (transitive,with-dative) To release money into circulation illegally.
11. (transitive) To remain in a certain state or situation; to lead, to maintain.
12. (transitive) To turn over the soil to prepare a field for planting; to plough, to till.
13. (intransitive) (of time) To pass, to elapse.
14. (intransitive,transitive,with-dative) (of plants) To sprout, to germinate, to grow in size, to shoot forth, to grow roots, to strike roots.

Hyphenated as

sür‧mek

Pronounced as (IPA)

/syɾˈmec/

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish سورمك (sürmek, “to drive before one, to drive away, to banish, to advance, to sell in open market, to continue, to rub on or against, to shoot out, to protrude”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (sür-, “to drive away, to spend time, to go ahead, (for time) to elapse, to rub, to smear”), from Proto-Turkic *sǖr- (“to drive before one, to lead, to drive away”). Although, both senses "to drive, to banish" and "to rub" were originated from the same root, it was not until Old Anatolian Turkish era when the verb went through semantic expansion and took on the latter meaning and began to be used in the sense "to cast away disease or ugliness via balms, ointments or medicine".
Cognates
Azerbaijani sürmək (“to continue, to last”)
Bashkir һөрөү (höröw, “to exile, to plow”)
Chagatai [script needed] (sürmek, “to drive, to drive away, to plough land”)
Chuvash сирме (sirme, “to move away”)
Khakas сӱрерге (sürerge, “to drive, to chase, to expel”)
Kipchak [Arabic needed] (sür-, “to banish”)
Kyrgyz сүрүү (sürüü, “to move forward, to rub, to scrape”)
Southern Altai сӱрер (sürer, “to drive, to chase”)
Tatar сөрү (sörü, “to drive, to exile, to plow”)
Turkmen sürmek (“to drive, to smear, to daub”)
Tuvan сүрер (sürer, “to clean, to purify”)
Uyghur سۈرمەك (sürmek, “to move, to shift, to pursue, to chase, to spread, to smear, to apply”)
Uzbek surmoq (“to move, to propel, to rub”)
Yakut үүр (üür, “to drive, to expel”)