yolmak

Meaning

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

Hyphenated as

yol‧mak

Pronounced as (IPA)

/joɫ.ˈmak/

Etymology

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”).