tombul

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *tom- (“round, convex; ball”).[1] Related to tomak (“wooden ball”). Cognate with Azerbaijani tombul.

Adjective

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tombul

  1. fat (very informal, generally said to a child or an older)
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See also

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References

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  1. ^ 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
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