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yolmak

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

Pronounced as (IPA)
/joɫ.ˈmak/
Etymology

Cognate with Mongolian
зулгаах
Cognate with Old Turkish
Cognate with Azerbaijani
yolmaq
Cognate with Kazakh
жұлу
Cognate with Kyrgyz
жулуу
Cognate with Turkmen
ýolmak
Cognate with Uyghur
يۇلماق
Cognate with Uzbek
yulmoq
In summary

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”).

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