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yumak

yumak

Turkish

Noun

yumak (definite accusative yumağı, plural yumaklar)

  1. ball (of wool, thread, string)
Declension
Related terms
  • yumru
  • yumaklı
  • yumaksız
  • yumaklık

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish يومق (yumak, to wash out, rinse out), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (yu-, to wash), from Proto-Turkic *ju(b)- (to wash; to bathe, to swim), which, according to the controversial Altaic hypothesis, is possibly derived from Proto-Altaic *ŋi̯ŏbu (to pour).

Verb

yumak (third-person singular simple present yur)

  1. (transitive, dialectal) to wash
Synonyms
See also
  • arıtmak

References

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 936
  • Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *jum-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 870
  • Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *ŋi̯ŏbu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill