Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish اولومق (ulumak, to howl), from Proto-Turkic *ūlï- (to cry, howl). Altaicists compare it to Korean 울다 (ulda, to cry, weep, neigh), Mongolian улих (ulix, to yawn, howl, cry out),[1] but the Altaic theory is now widely discredited.

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (ulı-, to cry noisily, howl), Azerbaijani ulamaq (to howl, wail), Bashkir олоу (olow, to howl), Chuvash ӑлахма (ălahma, to neigh), Kazakh ұлу (ūlu, to howl, whine), Kyrgyz улуу (uluu, to howl), Tuvan улуур (uluur, to howl), Uzbek ulimoq (to howl), Yakut улуй (uluy, to howl).

May also be of imitative origin. Compare English ululate.

Verb

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ulumak (third-person singular simple present ulur)

  1. (intransitive) to howl
    İt ulur, birbirini bulur.
    Dog[s] howl and find each other. (A proverb similar to birds of a feather flock together.)

Conjugation

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ū́lo”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill