sıyırmak

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Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish صییرمق (sıyırmak, to skin), from Proto-Turkic *sïdïr- (to rub off, peel off).[1]

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (sıδır-, to skin, strip off, shovel up, slip), Azerbaijani sıyırmaq (to plane, shave), Chuvash шӑйӑрма (šăjărma, to scrape, abrade, strip), Khakas сызырарға (sızırarğa, to scrape, strip off), Kyrgyz сыйруу (sıyruu, to tear off), Turkmen syrmak (to sweep, shave).

Verb[edit]

sıyırmak (third-person singular simple present sıyırır)

  1. (transitive) to graze, skin, scrape, skin off
  2. (transitive) to peel off, strip off, skim off

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References[edit]

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

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