yolmak

Signification

1. (transitive) pick, pluck
2. (transitive) strip, bare
3. (transitive) rip off, milk, bleed, mulct

Coupé comme

yol‧mak

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/joɫ.ˈmak/

Étymologie

From Ottoman Turkish یولمق (yolmak), from Proto-Turkic *yol- (“to tear out, pick out, pluck”).
Possibly related to Mongolian зулгаах (zulgaax, “to pick, pluck feathers from a chicken”).
Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yol-/yul-, “to pluck”), Azerbaijani yolmaq (“to pluck”), Kazakh жұлу (jūlu, “to twitch, pluck”), Kyrgyz жулуу (juluu, “to pluck”), Turkmen ýolmak (“to pluck, tear out”), Uyghur يۇلماق (yulmaq, “to pluck, pull out”), Uzbek yulmoq (“to pluck”).