sürtmek
Meaning
- (transitive) to rub against
- (intransitive) to vagabond, sleep around, gad, horse around, wander about aimlessly
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In summary
From Ottoman Turkish سورتمك (sürtmek, “to rub grindingly against”), from Proto-Turkic *sür(-t)- (“to rub, smear”). Cognate to sürmek (“to rub, smear, spread”), see further cognates there. Cognates Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (sürt-, “to rub”), Karakhanid [script needed] (sürtmēk, “to smear, rub, polish, clean”), Azerbaijani sürtmək (“to rub, polish”), Bashkir һөртөү (hörtöw, “to smear”), Chagatai [script needed] (sürtmek, “to rub”), Kazakh сүрту (sürtu, “to wipe, rub off”), Khakas сӱртерге (sürterge, “to smear, spread, rub”), Kipchak [Arabic needed] (sürüt-, “to erase”), Kyrgyz сүртүү (sürtüü, “to rub, wipe”), Southern Altai сӱртер (sürter, “to smear, spread”), Tatar сөртү (sörtü, “to wipe, smear”), Turkmen sürtmek (“to rub”), Uyghur سۈرتمەك (sürtmek, “to wipe, scrub”), Uzbek surtmoq (“to wipe, polish”).
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