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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish یولمق (yolmak), from Proto-Turkic *yol- (“to tear out, pick out, pluck”).
Possibly related to Mongolian зулгаах (zulgaax, “to pick, pluck feathers from a chicken”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Cognate with Old Turkic (yol-/yul-, “to pluck”), Azerbaijani yolmaq (“to pluck”), Kazakh жұлу (jūlu, “to twitch, pluck”), Kyrgyz жулуу (juluu, “to pluck”), Turkmen ýolmak (“to pluck, tear out”), Uyghur يۇلماق (yulmaq, “to pluck, pull out”), Uzbek yulmoq (“to pluck”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /joɫ.ˈmak/
- Hyphenation: yol‧mak
Verb
yolmak (third-person singular simple present yolar)
- (transitive) pick, pluck
Tavuğun tüylerini yoldu.- He/she plucked the feathers of the chicken.
- (transitive) strip, bare
- (transitive) rip off, milk, bleed, mulct
Oyun yayımcıları yarım oyun piyasaya sürüp indirilebilir içerikler ile oyuncuları yoluyor.- Game publishers release half a game and rip off gamers with downloadable content.
Conjugation
1 The suffixes -ken and -cesine may be suffixed to the base form of any of the following tenses: aorist, continuous, inferential (even when it follows another suffix), and future.
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