to press; to clasp, grasp, grip, squeeze, shake, clench, flatten, squash (apply pressure from multiple sides at once) · to squeeze (out), press (extract by applying pressure from multiple sides at once) · to compress (to press together into a smaller space)
çekim: geçmiş puristanut · şimdiki puristaisi · ulaç puristava
köken: purista (“to make a quiet purring sound”) + -taa, probably with semantic influence from the similar-sounding pusertaa (“to squeeze, compress”). Cognates include Karelian puristoa.