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TURKISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

oymak.

to cut, chisel, carve, or engrave a design in/upon sth.; to hollow sth. out

5 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

verb[ojˈmɑk]
  1. to cut, chisel, carve, or engrave a design in/upon sth.; to hollow sth. out

    transitive
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Turkic *ōy- (“to pick, peck”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (oy-, “to chisel; to make a deepening, to hollow sth. out”), Azerbaijani oymaq (“to carve, excavate”), Bashkir уйыу (uyıw, “to hollow”), Kazakh ою (oyuw, “to etch”), Kyrgyz оюу (oyuu, “to ornament, etch”), Southern Altai ойор (oyor, “to pierce”), Turkmen oýmak (“to carve”), Uzbek oʻymoq (“to carve”).

noun[ojˈmɑk]
  1. tribe

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اویماق, ultimately from Classical Mongolian ᠠᠶᠢᠮᠠᠭ (ayimaɣ, “tribe”). Compare Mongolian аймаг (ajmag), Buryat аймаг (ajmag), Kalmyk әәмг (äämg); and in Turkic languages, Yakut аймах (aymax), Kyrgyz аймак (aymak), Kazakh аймақ (aymaq), Uyghur ئايماق (aymaq).

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