yontmak

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to shape sth. by cutting it; to chisel; to hew; to whittle; to dress (stone); to sculpt, sculpture
  2. (transitive) to point or sharpen

Synonyms

heykeltraşlık yapmak

heykel yapmak

heykelini yapmak

çabalayarak yapmak

bıçakla kesmek

sivriltmek

törpülemek

yumuşatmak

adam etmek

uğraşıp yapmak

oylumlamak

yontarak yapmak

Etymology

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish یونتمق (yontmak, “to cut and chip, to pare down”), causative of یونمق (yonmak), from Proto-Turkic *yōn- (“to adze, plane”). The causative form took the place of the original verb. Related to Old Turkic [script needed] (yon-, “to shave, scrape”), Azerbaijani yonmaq (“to hew, shave”) Kyrgyz жонуу (jonuu, “to whittle, hew”), Southern Altai јонор (ǰonor, “to plain, shave, slice, hew”), Uzbek yoʻnmoq.

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