gözü doymak

Compound of göz (“eye”) +‎ -ü (possessive suffix) +‎ doymak (“to be full, to be sated”), literally “for one's eye to be full”. Cognate with Turkmen göz doymak, Salar gözi doy,^[1] Azerbaijani gözü doymamaq (“to want more of something much desired after enough has been obtained”), Kazakh көзі тою (közı toü), Uyghur (köz toymaq).

• IPA^(key): /ɟœˈzy.doj.mak/
• Hyphenation: gö‧zü‧doy‧mak

gözü doymak (third-person singular simple present gözü doyar)

1. (intransitive, idiomatic) (for literal or figurative hunger) To be satisfied for the time being after having enough of something desired, to be sated, to be satiated.

   Adama bir sürü yiyecek getirdik ama hala beklenti içinde, bir türlü gözü doymadı. ― We brought the guy a ton of food but he's still in expectation, he's just not satisfied.

• In the base form of the verb, "göz" has the possessive suffix for 3rd Person Singular, this suffix changes accordingly for other persons;

  1st P. Sg. "-üm" → (gözüm)

  2nd P. Sg. "-ün" → (gözün)

  1st P. Pl. "-ümüz" → (gözümüz)

  2nd P. Pl. "-ünüz" → (gözünüz)

  3rd P. Pl. "-leri" → (gözleri)

• Since göz assumes the position of the subject in the sentence, the verb doymak can only be inflected in 3rd person singular or plural.

• “gözü doymak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gözü doymak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1768