yüzmek

From Ottoman Turkish يوزمك‎ (yüzmek, “to swim, float”), from Proto-Turkic *jüŕ- (“to swim, float”). Altaicists compare to Japanese 濡れる (nureru, “to get wet”), Manchu ᠨᡝᡵᡝᠮᠪᡳ (nerembi, “to swim (of animals)”), Mongolian норох (noroh, “to soak up, get wet”) and reconstruct Proto-Altaic *ni̯úŕe ("to become wet, soak").[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰘𐰇𐰕‎ (yüz-, “to swim”), Karakhanid [script needed] (yüzmēk, “to swim”), Azerbaijani üzmək (“to swim”), Bashkir йөҙөү (yöðöw, “to swim”), Kazakh жүзу (jüzw, “to swim”), Kyrgyz жүзүү (cüzüü, “to swim, float”), Turkmen ýüzmek (“to swim, float, sail”), Uyghur ئۈزمەك‎ (üzmek, “to swim”), Uzbek yuzmoq (“to swim”).

yüzmek (third-person singular simple present yüzer)

1. (intransitive) to swim

   Sıcak günlerde havuzda yüzmeyi severim. ― I like swimming in the pool in warm days.

2. (intransitive) to float

• yüzme
• yüzüş
• yüzücü
• yüzgeç
• yüzülmek
• yüzdürmek
• yüzmemek
• yüzememek
• yüzebilmek

• dalmak
• süzülmek

From Ottoman Turkish يوزمك‎ (yüzmek, “to skin, flay”), from Proto-Turkic *jüŕ- (“to peel off (skin), to skin”).[2] Compare Mongolian зорох (zoroh, “to plane, shave, chip”).

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (yüzmēk, “to skin”).

yüzmek (third-person singular simple present yüzer)

1. (transitive) to skin, flay

   Ölü koyunun derisini yüzdü. ― He/she flayed the skin from the dead sheep.

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