Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اله ویرمك (ele virmek, vermek, “to deliver up, to betray”),^[1][2] equivalent to el (“the hand (organ); any stranger; land, domain”) +‎ -e (dative suffix) +‎ vermek (“to give, to hand”), literally “to give (someone or something) to (someone's) hand”.

• IPA^(key): /eˈle.veɾ.mec/
• Hyphenation: e‧le‧ver‧mek

ele vermek (third-person singular simple present ele verir)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To inform on someone's offense, either to the authorities or publicly, in order to have them caught; to turn in, to rat out.

   Synonym: ihbar etmek

2. (transitive, idiomatic) To reveal, to give away, to make apparent.

   Synonyms: göstermek, ortaya çıkarmak, açığa vurmak

• “ele vermek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ele vermek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1405