یوماق

Khalaj

Verb

یوُماق (yûmaq)

1. Arabic spelling of yûmaq (“to wash”)

Ottoman Turkish

یوماق

Alternative forms

• یومق (yumak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yumgak (“ball of wool; thread”), a derivation from *yum (“round”), whence یومرو (yumru, “round, globular”). Cognate with Azerbaijani yumaq, Bashkir йомғаҡ (yomğaq), Chuvash ҫӑмха (śămh̬a), Khakas ныңмах (nıñmax), Southern Altai јумгак (ǰumgak), Tatar йомгак (yomgak), Turkmen ýumak and Uzbek yumaloq.

Noun

یوماق • (yumak) (definite accusative یوماغی (yumağı), plural یوماقلر (yumaklar))

1. clew, ball, a quantity of string, thread, or yarn wound into a spherical shape

   Synonyms: كلابه (kelabe), كلوله (gulule)

Derived terms

• یوماقلامق (yumaklamak, “to wind into a ball”)
• یوماقلانمق (yumaklanmak, “to become a ball”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yumak
• → Armenian: իւմախ (iwmax)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yumak2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5379
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یوماق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 515a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یوماق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1368
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Glomus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 656
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یوماق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5637
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yumak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یوماق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2220