koynuna almak

From compound of koyun (“bosom, chest”) +‎ -u (possessive suffix) +‎ -(n)a (dative suffix with "n" as buffer consonant) +‎ almak (“to take, to receive”), literally “to take into one's bosom”. Cognate with Kazakh қойнына алу (qoinyna alu).

• IPA^(key): /koj.nuˈna.aɫ.mak/
• Hyphenation: koy‧nu‧na‧al‧mak

koynuna almak (third-person singular simple present koynuna alır)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To sleep in the same bed with someone.
2. (transitive, idiomatic, euphemistic) To sleep with someone, to have sexual intercourse with someone.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To lay siege to, to besiege a place.

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

  1st P. Sg. "-um" + -a (dative suffix) → (koynuma)

  2nd P. Sg. "-un" + -a (dative suffix) → (koynuna)

  1st P. Pl. "-umuz" + -a (dative suffix) → (koynumuza)

  2nd P. Pl. "-unuz" + -a (dative suffix) → (koynunuza)

  3rd P. Pl. "-ları" + -na (dative suffix with "n" as buffer consonant) → (koyunlarına)

• “koynuna almak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “koynuna almak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2769