yarmak

Meaning

1. (transitive) to split, cleave, rend; slit
2. (transitive) to hack, chop
3. (transitive) to breach, tear

Hyphenated as

yar‧mak

Pronounced as (IPA)

[jɑɾmɑk]

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یارمق (yarmak, “to split, rend”), from Proto-Turkic *yār- (“to split”).
Akin to Proto-Mongolic *jara- (“to split open, open wide”) (Mongolian ярах (jarax, “to cleave, thrust, draw open”)).
cognates
Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (yar-, “to split, divide”), Karakhanid [script needed] (yarmāk, “to split, cleave, divide”), Azerbaijani yarmaq (“to cut through”), Bashkir ярыу (yarıw, “to split”), Chagatai [script needed] (yarmaq, “to split”), Chuvash ҫур (śur, “to cut, split”), Kazakh жару (jaru, “to split”), Khakas чарарға (çararğa, “to split, divide”), Kyrgyz жаруу (jaruu, “to split”), Southern Altai јарар (ǰarar, “to cut, hack, split”), Tatar яру (yaru, “to split”), Turkmen ýārmak (“to cut up”), Tuvan чарар (çarar, “to split”), Uyghur يارماق (yarmaq, “to split”), Uzbek yormoq (“to split”), Yakut саркаах (sarkaaq, “split (adj.)”).