tombul
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Turkic *tom- (“round, convex; ball”).[1] Related to tomak (“wooden ball”). Cognate with Azerbaijani tombul.
Adjective edit
tombul
- fat (very informal, generally said to a child or an older)
Related terms edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tom-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill