yıkamak

Meaning

to wash

Concepts

wash

🧽

bathe

develop

scrub

bath

🛀

clean

wash down

elutriate

launder

lave

Synonyms

yumak

temizlemek

çile

kangal

silmek

süpürmek

temizlenmek

banyo yapmak

🛀

banyo yaptırmak

çalkalamak

Translations

laver

🧽

waschen

🧽

lavare

🧽

lavar

🧽

wassen

🧽

lavar

🧽

spülen

πλένω

rentar

🧽

baden

abspülen

şûştin

🧽

baigner

lavo

🧽

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: یایقامق

Cognate with Old Turkish:

Cognate with Mongolian: найгах

Cognate with Old Turkish: 𐰖𐰪

Cognate with Khalaj: yâmaq

Cognate with Azerbaijani: yaxalamaq

Cognate with Turkmen: yāymak

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ییقامق (yıkamak, “to wash, rinse; to bathe”). There are two theories about the further etymology:
* According to Nişanyan and Clauson it is derived from Old Turkic [script needed] (yayık, “agitation, playful, unstable”), derived from Old Turkic [script needed] (yay-, “to shake, rinse”), therefore it must be a secondary form derived from Proto-Turkic *yāń- (“to shake”). See yayık.
* Altaicists construct Proto-Turkic *yańka- (“to shake, bring into motion”), and derive it (compare Mongolian найгах (najgax, “to shake, sway”)) from a Proto-Altaic root meaning "to incline, sway, shake". However, the Altaic theory is now widely discredited.
Compare çalkalamak for a similar semantic reach. Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖𐰪 (yań-, “to scatter”), Khalaj yâmaq (“to churn butter”), Azerbaijani yaxalamaq (“to rinse”), Turkmen yāymak (“to churn butter”).

Sentences

Yüzümü yıkamak için pirinç leğeni sıcak suyla doldurmaya gitti .

She went to fill the rice basin with hot water to wash my face.