sömürmek

From Ottoman Turkish سومرمك (sümürmek, “to quaff, to devour”), causative form of Proto-Turkic *simü-, *sümü-. It is sümürmek in some dialects.

sömürmek (third-person singular simple present sömürür)

1. to appropriate
2. to benefit natural resources and economic values of another nation or state (see sömürge (“colony”))
3. to quaff, gulp down, swallow, devour
4. to suck in, draw inward (with mouth)
5. to exploit
6. (slang) to fuck over

   Karısı onu öyle sömürdü ki... yıllarca çocuk nafakasını beş kuruşu olmayana kadar ödemek zorunda kaldı.

   His wife fucked him over so badly, he was forced to pay child support until he had nothing to his name.

• yutmak, yutkunmak

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*simü- / *sümü-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “simür-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 829