tombul
Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *tom- (“round, convex; ball”).[1] Related to tomak (“wooden ball”). Cognate with Azerbaijani tombul.
Adjective
tombul
- fat (very informal, generally said to a child or an older)
See also
- kilolu
- semiz
- şişman
- şişko
- tonton
- tombalak
- toplu
References
- 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