توتولماق

Chagatai

Etymology

By surface analysis, توتـ (tut-, “to grasp”) +‎ ـول (-ul, “passive suffix”)

Verb

توتولماق (tutulmaq)

  1. passive of توتماق (tutmaq); to be seized
  2. (of celestial bodies) to be eclipsed

Descendants

  • Uzbek: tutilmoq

Further reading

  • Shaw, Robert Barkley (1880) “توتولماق”, in “Turki-English vocabulary” (chapter 2), in A Sketch of the Turki Language as Spoken in Eastern Turkistan (Káshgar and Yarkand)‎[1], Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, page 72
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