to smother, to suffocate, to deprive of oxygen · to muffle, to repress, to diminish, to die out · to braise
çekim: geçmiş smoorden · ortaç gesmoord · şimdiki smoort · ulaç smorend
eş: verstikken, braiseren, sudderen
köken: From Middle Dutch smoren, from Proto-Germanic *smurōną (“to suffocate, strangle”), probably related to *smallijan (“to burn”) or Old English smoca (“smoke”).
çekim: geçmiş stofa · ortaç stofa · şimdiki stobhann sé
köken: From Scots stove (“to stew”), from Middle English stūphen (“to steep (meat in a liquid)”), from Vulgar Latin *extuphāre, *extufāre, *extupāre, from ex- + Ancient Greek τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”). Compare Old French estuver (“to put into hot water”), Norman êtuiver (“to stew”), and Dutch stoven (“to stew, simmer”).
black (of colour) · dark, as opposed to a lighter colour · dirty (of water); built for dirty water
çekim: çoğul të zinj
zıt: i bardhë
köken: First attested in the 17th century in this form, already 16th in its now obsolete feminine form e zeshkë (“black”). The plural të zinj is recent, built on analogy of other masculine nouns ending in stressed /-ˈi/, and supplanted the earlier të zez. The irregular paradigm may reflect e zezë f sg < *gʷed(ʰ)yā, të zez m pl < *gʷed(ʰ)yoi, zi f (“mourning”, noun) < *gʷed(ʰ)íyā. Has been compared to…