жұму

Kazakh

Cyrillic	жұму (jumw)
Arabic	جۇمۋ‎

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yum-, *yüm- (“to close (eyes, mouth)”).

Cognate with Azerbaijani yummaq (“to shut, close”), Bashkir йомоу (yomou, “to shut, clamp, compress”), Chagatai [script needed] (yummaq, “to shut”), Kipchak [Arabic needed] (yum-, “to shut the eyes or fingers”), Kyrgyz жумуу (cumuu, “to close eyes”), Southern Altai јумар (ǰumar, “to close eyes”), Tatar йомырга (yomırga, “to close, clamp”), Turkmen ýummak (“to close”), Uyghur يۇمماق‎ (yummaq, “to close, shut”), Uzbek yummoq (“to close, shut”), Yakut сим (sim, “to blink”).

Verb

жұму • (jumw)

to close (eyes or mouths)