tombul
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Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Turkic *tom- (“round, convex; ball”).[1] Related to tomak (“wooden ball”). Cognate with Azerbaijani tombul.
Adjective[edit]
tombul
- fat (very informal, generally said to a child or an older)
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References[edit]
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tom-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill