Uyghur

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *yum-.[1][2] Cognate with Turkish yummak, 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), Kumyk юммакъ (yummaq), Turkmen ýummak (to close), Uyghur يۇمماق (yummaq, to close, shut), Uzbek yummoq (to close, shut), Yakut сим (sim, to blink).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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يۇمماق (yummaq)

  1. (transitive) to close, to shut (eyes, mouth)
  2. (transitive) to hold, to grasp

References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “1 yum-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 934
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jüm- / *jum-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

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  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN