yemek

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) to eat
2. (transitive) to require, use up, consume
3. (transitive) to bite, eat someone up
4. (transitive) to drain someone, wear someone down
5. (slang,transitive) to kill
6. (slang,transitive) to lay, have sex with, kiss, lick, suck
7. (transitive) to capture
8. (slang,transitive) to break
9. (transitive) to fall for, to be deceived

Noun

1. meal, food
2. repast
3. dish, particular kind of food

Hyphenated as

ye‧mek

Pronounced as (IPA)

/jeˈmek/

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یمك (yemek, “to eat, consume”), from Proto-Turkic *yē- (“to eat”).
cognates
Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰘𐰃𐰘𐰇 (yéyü, “eating”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (ye-, “to eat”), Karakhanid [script needed] (yḗmēk, “to eat, destroy”), Azerbaijani yemək (“to eat”), Chuvash ҫиме (śime, “to eat”), Kazakh жеу (jeu, “to eat”), Khakas чирге (çirge, “to eat”), Kyrgyz жөө (jöö, “to eat”), Southern Altai јиир (ǰiir, “to eat”), Turkmen iýmek (“to eat”), Tuvan чиир (çiir, “to eat”), Uyghur يېمەك (yëmek, “to eat”), Uzbek yemoq (“to eat”), Yakut сиэ (sie, “to eat”).

Sentences

Genzi ve yemek borusu tutuşur gibi oldu .

His nasopharynx and oesophagus seemed to catch fire.