Uyghur

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Other scripts
Perso-Arabic ئوقۇماق
Latin oqumaq
Cyrillic оқумақ

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *okɨ- (to call, read, recite).

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (okı-, to read, call), Azerbaijani oxumaq (to read, sing), Bashkir уҡыу (uqıw, to read), Kazakh оқу (oqu, to read, recite), Kyrgyz окуу (okuu, to read, learn), Turkmen okamak (to read, study), Uzbek oʻqimoq (to learn, study, read), Yakut угуй (uguy, to call).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ئوقۇماق (oqumaq)

  1. to read
  2. to learn