ییغین

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yıġın (“heap, pile”);[1] cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yıġın) and Azerbaijani yığın.

Noun

ییغین • (yığın) (definite accusative ییغینی (yığını), plural ییغینلر (yığınlar))

  1. heap, pile, stack, congeries, a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation
    Synonyms: اوبك (öbek), توده (tude), كومه (küme)
  • ییغمق (yığmak, “to heap, pile”)
  • ییغناق (yığınak, “heap, pile”)
  • ییغیلو (yığılı, “heaped, piled up”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: yığın
  • → Armenian: յըղըն (yəġən)

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yığın”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 904

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