یوزمه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یوزـ (yüz-, “to swim, float”) +‎ ـمه (-me).

Noun

یوزمه • (yüzme)

verbal noun of یوزمك (yüzmek):
1. swimming, the act or art of sustaining and propelling the body in water
2. (by extension) swim, an act or instance of swimming

Descendants

Turkish: yüzme

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yüzme”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5417
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یوزمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1364

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