yarma

Meaning

yarmak

  1. (transitive) to split, cleave, rend, slit; to cut or separate with a sharp tool
  2. (transitive) to split into two parts
  3. (transitive) to hack, chop
  4. (transitive) to breach, tear
  5. (transitive) to wound heavily

Pronounced as (IPA)
/jaɾˈma/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یارمه (yarma, “an act of splitting or a thing cloven, split asunder lengthways”), from Ottoman Turkish یارمق (yarmaḳ, “to split, to rend, to cut asunder lengthways”), from Proto-Turkic *yār- (“to split”), equivalent to yar- + -ma.

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