çekim: geçmiş esmaguei · ortaç esmagado · şimdiki esmaga
köken: Probably from Old Occitan esmaiar (compare also Old French esmaier), from Vulgar Latin *exmagāre (“to deprive (someone) of strength, to disable”), from Latin ex- + *magāre (“to enable, empower”), from Proto-Germanic *maginą, *maganą (“might, power”). Compare Spanish amagar. Cognate with English dismay.
to crush, press · to squeeze · to oppress (politically or economically)
çekim: geçmiş esmaguei · ortaç esmagado · şimdiki esmaga
köken: Attested in 1500 (Juan Esmagado). Probably a derivative with the prefix es-, from Latin ex-, of maga (“guts of fish”), from Proto-Germanic *magô (“stomach”) and cognate of English maw. Alternatively, linked to a Vulgar Latin *exmagāre, from Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌽 (magan) or Proto-Germanic *maganą, as with Portuguese esmagar. Cf. also Spanish amagar.
todas esas gavelas con que nos esmagaban desde hai tanto tempo
köken: From Proto-Albanian * ̊gneś-, from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to compress”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic гнєсти (gnesti, “to press on”). Formed using the intensive prefix (a)n-.