Description:

The term 'ostak' means to scrape or peel something off, and is also used as a principle idiom for erasing, eliminating or obliterating something. The intensified form 'rostak' can sometimes be used for the more extreme senses.

Verb:

As a verb, 'ostak' is a transitive skurun verb meaning to scrape, peel, erase or eliminate, taking an ergative eraser and an absolutive thing scraped or thing eliminated. If there is a need for disambiguation between obliterating something versus just removing a layer, the intensified form 'rostak' can be used. It can have the sense of 'delete' in a computer context.

Noun:

As a noun, 'ostak' refers to erasure or elimination, or deletion.