yalamak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish يالامق (yalamak, to lick, lick up), from Proto-Turkic *jālga- (to lick).[1] Possibly related to Proto-Mongolic *ǯalka-, *ǯalgi-, (cf. Mongolian залгих (zalgih, to devour, gulp down, imbibe), залхаг (zalhag, mucus, slime)) and Proto-Tungusic *ǯali- (cf. Evenki дяликса (ǯaliksa, saliva)).[2] Compare also Mongolian долоох (dolooh, to lick), a Turkic borrowing perhaps pointing to word initial /d/.[3]

Verb

yalamak (third-person singular simple present yalar)

  1. (transitive) to lick (to stroke with a tongue), to lick something up
    Küçük kızımı yerdeki kırık kavanozdan reçel yalarken gördüm.I saw my little daughter while she was licking jam from the broken jar on the floor.
  2. (transitive) to sweep
  3. to graze or skim over, pass just above or near the surface of

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • yalanmak
  • yalatmak
  • yalaşmak
  • yalak
  • yalaka

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *jālga-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *ǯā́lV”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. Clauson, Gerard (1972), “yalğa:- (d-)”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 926
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