köken: Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (wlt- /ward-/, “to turn, twist, writhe; to change”), Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫇𐫡𐫅 (wrd), from Old Persian 𐎺𐎼𐎫 (vart-), from Proto-Iranian *wart- (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wart-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, rotate”). Cognates include Sanskrit वर्तते (vártate, “to turn, roll”), Proto-Slavic *vьrtě̀ti (“to…
köken: From Proto-Turkic *yum (“round”). Compare with Kyrgyz жумуру (jumuru), Turkmen ýumry, Turkish and Azerbaijani yumru (“round”), Bashkir йомро (yomro).
köken: From *yum(u)ru (“round”), from Proto-Turkic *yum (“round”). Compare with Kazakh жұмыр (jūmyr), Kyrgyz жумуру (jumuru), Southern Altai јумур (ǰumur), Turkmen ýumry, Turkish yumru (“round”).
to turn (followed by lative suffixes) (to change direction and enter a relatively narrower or closed place) · to roll over (to turn in bed towards the wall before falling asleep) · to roll into (followed by -ba/-be) (to fall into something and tip over)
köken: Inherited from Malay bulat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buled₂ (“round, spherical; rounded”). False cognate of French boulette (“small ball”).