sökmək

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		сөкмәк
Abjad		سؤکمک

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sök- (“to split, tear apart”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sœkˈmæk], [sœkˈmæj]
• Hyphenation: sök‧mək

Verb

sökmək

1. (transitive) to pull down, tear down, demolish

   Evimizi söküblər.

   Our house has been pulled down.

   köhnə bina sökmək ― to tear down an old building

   Synonym: dağıtmaq

2. (transitive) to take apart, dismantle

   cıhazı sökmək ― to take apart a device

   dizüstü kompüteri sökmək ― to take apart a laptop

   Dünən telefonumu sökməyə məcbur oldum.

   Yesterday I had had to take apart my phone.

3. (transitive) to unstitch, to tear at the seams
4. (transitive) to unknit
5. (figurative, transitive) to cleave (the darkness)

   qaranlığı sökmək ― to cleave the darkness

Derived terms

• söküntü (“broken peaces, wreckage”)