یوماق

Chagatai

Etymology

Inherited from Karakhanid یُوماقْ (yūmʾq /⁠yūmaq⁠/), from Proto-Turkic *yu(b)-.

Verb

یوماق • (yumaq, yûmâq)

1. (transitive) to wash

Descendants

• Uyghur: يۇماق (yumaq)
• Uzbek: yuvmoq

Further reading

• el-Buhari, Süleyman Özbeki (1881), “یوماق”, in لغت چغتای و ترکی عثمانی [Ottoman Turkish-Chagatai Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, page 308
• Schluessel, Eric (2018), “یوـ”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources‎^[2], Michigan Publishing, page 247
• Shaw, Robert Barkley (1880), “یوماق”, in “Turki-English vocabulary” (chapter 2), in A Sketch of the Turki Language as Spoken in Eastern Turkistan (Káshgar and Yarkand)‎^[3], Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, page 206
• Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870), “یوماق”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎^[4] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 550

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yu(b)-

Verb

یُوماقْ (yūmʾq /yūmaq/) (third-person singular aorist یُورْ (yūr))

1. (transitive) to wash

   اُلْ تُونْ یُودٖی ― ʾul tūn yūdī /ol tōn yūdï/ ― he washed a dress

Descendants

• Chagatai: یوماق (yumaq)
  • Uyghur: يۇماق (yumaq)
  • Uzbek: yuvmoq

Further reading

• Mahmud al-Kashgari (1072–1074), Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the Compendium of the Languages of the Turks] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 249.

Khalaj

Verb

یوُماق (yûmaq)

1. Arabic spelling of yûmaq (“to wash”)

Ottoman Turkish

یوماق

Alternative forms

• یومق (yumak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yumgak (“ball of wool; thread”), a derivation from *yum (“round”), whence یومرو (yumru, “round, globular”).

Cognates

Cognate with Azerbaijani yumaq, Bashkir йомғаҡ (yomğaq), Chuvash ҫӑмха (śămh̬a), Khakas ныңмах (nıñmax), Southern Altai јумгак (ǰumgak), Tatar йомгак (yomğaq), Turkmen ýumak and Uzbek yumaloq.

Noun

یوماق • (yumak) (definite accusative یوماغی (yumağı), plural یوماقلر (yumaklar))

1. clew, ball, a quantity of string, thread, or yarn wound into a spherical shape

   Synonyms: كلابه (kelabe), كلوله (gulule)

   ایپلك یوماغی ― iplik yumağı ― ball of yarn

Derived terms

• یوماقلامق (yumaklamak, “to wind into a ball”)
• یوماقلانمق (yumaklanmak, “to become a ball”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yumak
• → Armenian: յումախ / իւմախ / եումախ (yumax)

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “yumak2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5379
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “یوماق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[5], Vienna: F. Beck, page 515a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “یوماق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[6] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1368
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Glomus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[7], Vienna, column 656
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “یوماق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[8], Vienna, column 5637
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yumak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یوماق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[9], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2220