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yumak.

clew, a ball of wool, thread, string, or yarn

5 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun/juˈmak/
  1. clew, a ball of wool, thread, string, or yarn

Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish یوماق (yumak, “ball”), derived from Proto-Turkic *yum (“round”). Cognate to yumru, perhaps also to yumurta. Cognates Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (yumɣak, “globular or round thing”), Azerbaijani yumaq (“ball of wool”), Bashkir йомғаҡ (yomğaq, “ball”), Chagatai [script needed] (yumaq, “ball of wool”), Chuvash ҫӑмха (śămh̬a, “ball”), Khakas ныңмах (nıñmax, “round”), Kipchak [Arabic needed] (yumaq, “thread rolled into a ball”), Southern Altai јумгак (ǰumgak), Tatar йомгак (yomğaq, “ball”), Turkmen ýumak (“ball”), Uzbek yumaloq (“round, ball”).

verb/juˈmak//juːˈmak/
  1. to wash

    transitive
Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish یومق (yumak, “to wash out, rinse out”), from Old Anatolian Turkish یومق (yumaq, “to wash”), from Proto-Turkic *yu(b)- (“to wash; to bathe, to swim”). Cognates Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (yu-, “to wash”), Karakhanid [script needed] (yūmāk, “to wash”), Azerbaijani yumaq (“to wash”), Bashkir йыуыу (yıwıw, “to wash”), Chagatai [script needed] (yumaq, “to wash”), Chuvash ҫума (śuma, “to wash”), Kazakh жуу (juwuw, “to wash”), Khakas чуурға (çuurğa, “to wash”), Kipchak [Arabic needed] (yuw-, yuy-, yū-, “to wash”), Kyrgyz жуу (juu, “to wash”), Southern Altai јунар (ǰunar, “to wash”) / јуур (ǰuur), Tatar юу (yuwu, “to wash”), Turkmen ýuwmak (“to wash”), Tuvan чуур (çuur, “to wash”), Uyghur يۇماق (yumaq, “to wash”), Uzbek yuvmoq (“to wash”), Yakut сууй (suuy, “to wash”).

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