different between kaimak vs kaymak

English

Noun

kaimak (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of kaymak

English

Alternative forms

• kaimak
• kajmak

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish kaymak (“cream”).

Noun

kaymak (uncountable)

1. A creamy dairy product, similar to clotted cream, made in the Balkans, Turkey, the Middle East, Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan, and India. It is made from the milk of water buffalos in the East or of cows in the West.

Translations

Further reading

• kaymak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Old Turkic kañak? (kañak), kayak? (kayak, “cream layer that forms on top of milk after boiling”), from kaña-? (kaña-, “1. to boil, 2. to melt, become liquid”), from kañ? (kañ, “fountainhead, spring, source of a stream”), from Proto-Turkic. See kaynamak.

Noun

kaymak (definite accusative kayma??, plural kaymaklar)

1. kaymak
2. (figuratively) best part of something

Declension

Derived terms

• kaymakl?
• kaymaks?z
• kaymaklanmak

Related terms

• kaynak

Etymology 2

From Old Turkic kay-? (kay-, “to turn (towards a direction or a thing), look after, have interest in, pay attention to”), from Proto-Turkic *k?y-, *K?j-. Ni?anyan thinks the meaning shift towards "to slip, slide" since the 15th century is due to the idiom aya?? kaymak (“to loose one's footing”) which is the result of turning and spraining of foot.

Verb

kaymak (third-person singular simple present kayar)

1. (intransitive) to slide; to slip, skid

2. (intransitive) to shift

3. (intransitive, slang) to fuck, insult, swear

Conjugation

Antonyms

• kaymamak

Derived terms

• kayak
• kaykay
• kaygan
• kay?lmak
• kayd?rmak
• sinekkayd?

Related terms

• kayg?
• kay?k

References