yolmak

Meaning

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

Concepts

fleece

pick

⛏️

pluck

pull

split

tear

Synonyms

koparmak

sökmek

kırılmak

kırmak

kurtarmak

paralamak

parçalanmak

salıvermek

yırtılmak

yırtmak

bırakmak

haraç almak

ditmek

Translations

peler

plumer

rupfen

arracher

zerreißen

déchirer

fendre

peritandin

rûçikandin

terafkirin

abrumpo

carpo

lacero

rumpo

scindo

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”).