yarmak

Meaning

  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)
[jɑɾmɑk]
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یارمق (yarmak, “to split, rend”), from Old Anatolian Turkish یارمق (yarmaq), from Proto-Turkic *yār- (“to split”). Cognates Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (yar-, “to split, divide”), Azerbaijani yarmaq (“to cut through”), Bashkir ярыу (yarıw, “to split”), Chagatai یارماق (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.)”).

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