يۇمشاق

Uyghur

Other scripts
Arabic يۇمشاق
Latin yumshaq
Cyrillic юмшақ (yumshaq)

Note: The Cyrillic follows the Kazakhstani standard.

Etymology

From Common Turkic *yumšaq (soft), from Proto-Turkic *yɨm-ĺča-k (soft).

Cognate with Old Uyghur jumšaq (soft); Bashkir йомшаҡ (yomşaq), Tatar йомшак (yomşaq), Kazakh жұмсақ (jūmsaq), Kyrgyz жумшак (jumşak), Southern Altai јымжак (ǰïmžak), Turkish yumuşak, Khakas нымзах (nımzax), Tuvan чымчак (çımçak), Yakut сымна (sımna), сымнаҕас (sımnağas), Chuvash ҫемҫе (śemś̬e, soft), etc.

Adjective

يۇمشاق • (yumshaq)

  1. soft