tütmek

Meaning

  1. (intransitive) to smoke, give off smoke
  2. (intransitive) (for smoke) to rise
  3. (dialectal, intransitive) to smell (good or bad)

Synonyms

Pronounced as (IPA)
[tyt.mec]
Etymology

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish توتمك (tütmek, “to give out smoke”), from Proto-Turkic *tüt(e)- (“to smoke”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tüt(e)-, “to smoke”), Bashkir төтәү (tötəw, “to smoke”), Kazakh түтеу (tüteu, “to smoke”), Khakas тӱдирге (tüdirge, “to smoke”), Kyrgyz түтөө (tütöö, “to smoke”), Turkmen tütemek (“to smoke, steam”).

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