soymak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صويمق (soymak, to strip, undress, rob), from Proto-Turkic *soj- (to skin, peel).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (soy-, to skin, strip), Azerbaijani soymaq (to undress), Bashkir һуйыу (huyïw, to skin, kill), Chuvash сӳме (süme, to tear, strip off, rob), Crimean Tatar soymaq (to kill a cow or sheep), Khakas сойарға (soyarğa, to strip off), Kyrgyz союу (soyuu, to kill), Turkmen soýmak (to skin), Uyghur سويماق (soymaq, to slaughter, skin), Uzbek so'ymoq (to butcher, slay).

Verb

soymak (third-person singular simple present soyar)

  1. (transitive) to peel
  2. (transitive) to skin
  3. (transitive) to undress, to strip
  4. (transitive) to rob

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References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *soj-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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