dökmek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish دوكمك (dökmek, “to pour, throw away, spill, scatter, cast”), from Proto-Turkic *tök-mek (“to pour out”).

Cognate with Karakhanid تُكْماكْ (tökmēk, “to pour, shed, scatter”), Old Uyghur (tök-, “to pour out”), Azerbaijani tökmək (“to pour”), Crimean Tatar tökmek (“to pour”), Bashkir түгеү (tügew, “to pour”), Chuvash тӑкма (tăkma, “to pour”), Kazakh төгу (tögu, “to pour”), Khakas тӧгерге (“to pour”), Kyrgyz төгүү (tögüü, “to pour”), Southern Altai тӧк- (tök-, “to pour”), Turkmen dökmek (“to pour”), Tuvan төгер (töger, “to pour”), Uyghur تۆكمەك (tökmek, “to pour out”), Uzbek toʻkmoq (“to pour”), Yakut тох (toq, “to pour, spill, throw out”).

Verb

dökmek (third-person singular simple present döker)

1. (transitive) to pour, pour out

   Çayına süt döktü. ― He poured milk into his tea.

2. (transitive) to spill, shed

   Dengesini yitirince sütü döktü. ― When he lost his balance he spilt the milk.

3. (transitive) to throw out, empty (a container)

   Çöpü döktü. ― He threw out the garbage.

4. (transitive) to scatter

   Oyuncaklarını ortalığa döktü. ― He scattered his toys around the house.

5. (transitive) to reveal, tell, pour out
6. (transitive) to shed, drop off
7. (transitive) to pour into a mold; to cast

   Demir döktü. ― He cast iron.

8. (transitive) to spend a lot of money on, spend freely
9. (transitive) to fail (the majority of students in a class)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to scatter): dağıtmak, saçmak
• (to throw out): boşaltmak

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