йыуыу

Bashkir

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yu(b)- (“to wash”).

Сognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yumak, “to wash”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (yu-, “to wash”), Karakhanid [script needed] (yūmāk), Azerbaijani yumaq, Chuvash ҫума (śuma), Kazakh жуу (juu), Khakas чуурға (çuurğa), Karachay-Balkar джууаргъа (cuuarğa), Kumyk жувмакъ (juwmaq), Southern Altai јунар (ǰunar), Turkish yumak, Kipchak [Arabic needed] (yuw-, yuy-, yū-, “to wash”), Kyrgyz жуу (juu), Tatar юу (yuu), Turkmen ýuwmak, Tuvan чуур (çuur), Uyghur يۇماق (yumaq), Uzbek yuvmoq, Yakut сууй (suuy), etc.

Verb

йыуыу • (yıwıw)

1. (transitive) to wash