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boğmak

“boğmak” is a Turkish word. Its 2 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to choke, strangle, throttle; to suffocate; to drown
  2. to cover up with, drown (something) in (bluster, a torrent of words)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بوغمق (boğmak, “to choke, strangle, constrict by binding, overwhelm”), from Proto-Turkic *bog- (“to tie up, to strangle”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (boɣ-, “to strangle”), Azerbaijani boğmaq (“to choke, strangle”), Bashkir быуыу (bıwıw, “to strangle”), Chuvash пӑв (păv, “to choke, strangle”), Khakas поғырарға (poğırarğa, “to squeeze, strangle”), Kyrgyz буу (buu,…

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