уйӑр

Chuvash

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *adï- (“to separate”).

Cognate with Turkish ayırmak, Azerbaijani ayırmaq Bashkir айырыу (ayırıw), Khakas азырарға (azırarğa), Kyrgyz айыруу (ayıruu), Turkmen aýyrmak, Uzbek ayirmoq, Yakut атыр (atır).

Verb

уйӑр • (ujăr)

1. to separate
2. to split
3. to allot (funds etc.)
4. to distribute
5. to divorce
6. to isolate
7. to pull apart (scramblers)
8. to sort
9. to pick out, to choose, to single out
10. to swarm (of bees)
11. to distinguish, to tell, to tell apart
12. to judge, to arbiter
13. to deprive (of something), to take away
14. to discern, to make out
15. tear off, to make to come off

Further reading

• “уйӑр”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎^[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.