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dayak yemek

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Turkish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طیاق یمك (dayak yemek, to receive a beating),[1] equivalent to compound of dayak (beating, support) +‎ yemek (to eat), literally to eat a beating.[2] Cognate with Kazakh таяқ жеу (taäq jeu).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /daˈjak.je.mec/
  • Hyphenation: da‧yak‧ye‧mek

Verb

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dayak yemek (third-person singular simple present dayak yer)

  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be beaten up, to receive a beating, to get one's ass kicked.
    Küçükken çok dayak yedim, ama bu beni durdurmadı.I got beaten up a lot when I was little, but that didn't stop me.

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طیاق یمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1266
  2. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dayak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

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