жұму

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	جۇمۋ
Cyrillic	жұму
Latin	jūmu
Yañalif	çūmu

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yum-, *yüm- (“to close (eyes, mouth)”).

Cognate with Azerbaijani yummaq (“to shut, close”), Bashkir йомоу (yomow, “to shut, clamp, compress”), Chagatai [script needed] (yummaq, “to shut”), Kipchak [Arabic needed] (yum-, “to shut the eyes or fingers”), Kyrgyz жумуу (jumuu, “to close eyes”), Southern Altai јумар (ǰumar, “to close eyes”), Tatar йомырга (yomırga, “to close, clamp”), Turkmen ýummak (“to close”), Uyghur يۇمماق (yummaq, “to close, shut”), Uzbek yummoq (“to close, shut”), Yakut сим (sim, “to blink”).

Verb

жұму • (jūmu)

1. to close (eyes or mouths)