Kazakh edit

Alternative scripts
Arabic جۇمۋ
Cyrillic жұму
Latin jūmu
Yañalif çūmu

Etymology edit

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 edit

жұму (jūmu)

  1. to close (eyes or mouths)