yenmek
Meaning
to defeat, overcome
Frequency
Hyphenated as
yen‧mek
Pronounced as (IPA)
[jænmec]
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یكمك (yeŋmek), from Proto-Turkic *yẹŋ- (“to win”), a possible borrowing from Old Chinese 贏 (*leŋ, “to win”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yeŋ-, “to win”), Kazakh жеңу (jeñu), Kyrgyz жеңүү (jeŋüü), etc.
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