boğma
noun C1- killing by strangulation
- a kind of illicitly produced raki
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in boğmam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: boğmasında. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: boğmasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: boğmasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: boğmasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Tek bir kişinin sahnede dikilerek kalabalıkları kahkahaya boğması, kişisel anılarını veya toplumsal gözlemlerini mizahi bir dille aktarması meddahın tevarüs edilen kültürel mirasıdır.
A single person standing on stage and making crowds roar with laughter, conveying their personal memories or social observations with a humorous language, is the cultural heritage inherited from the meddah.
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