oymak

Pronunciation: [ojˈmɑk]

“oymak” is a Turkish word. Its 2 meanings in English:

verb

to cut, chisel, carve, or engrave a design in/upon sth.; to hollow sth. out

noun

tribe

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ōy- (“to pick, peck”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (oy-, “to chisel; to make a deepening, to hollow sth. out”), Azerbaijani oymaq (“to carve, excavate”), Bashkir уйыу (uyıw, “to hollow”), Kazakh ою (oyuw, “to etch”), Kyrgyz оюу (oyuu, “to ornament, etch”), Southern Altai ойор (oyor, “to pierce”), Turkmen oýmak (“to carve”), Uzbek oʻymoq (“to carve”).

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