sızmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صیزمق (sızmak, “to ooze through a vessel, to trickle, leak out, pass out”), from Proto-Turkic *sïŕ- (“to ooze, to melt”).[1]

Verb

sızmak (third-person singular simple present sızar)

  1. (intransitive) to percolate, leak, ooze
    Tavandan su sızıyor. ― Water is leaking through the ceiling.
  2. (intransitive) (for a secret) to leak out, become known
    Önemli veriler dışarı sızdı. ― Important data leaked out.
  3. (intransitive) to infiltrate, enter (a place) unobtrusively
    FBI, terör örgütüne sızdı. ― The FBI infiltrated into the terrorist organization.
  4. (intransitive) to fall asleep, pass out (after getting drunk)
    Çok içme, sonra sızacaksın. ― Don't drink too much, otherwise you will pass out.

Conjugation

  • sızabilmek
  • sızamamak
  • sızdırmak
  • sızıcı
  • sızılmak
  • sızıntı
  • sızırmak
  • sızış
  • sızışmak
  • sızma
  • sızmamak
  • sızmış

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sɨŕ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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