yeğni

Turkish

Alternative forms

  • yenli, yeğnik, yenlik, yenil, yeyni (dialectal)

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یگنی (yeğni), from Old Anatolian Turkish یینی (yeyni), یكنی (yegni), یكول (yeŋül), from Proto-Turkic *yeŋil.

cognates

Cognate with Turkmen yeňil, Crimean Tatar and Uzbek yengil, Uyghur يەڭگىل (yenggil), Bashkir еңел (yeñel), Tatar җиңел (ciñel), Kazakh жеңіл (jeñıl), Kyrgyz жеңил (jeŋil), Gagauz ilin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jejˈni/, /jeːˈni/
  • (dialectal) IPA(key): /jeɣˈni/

Adjective

yeğni

  1. light (by weight)
    Synonym: hafif
    Antonym: ağır
  2. unserious

Derived terms

  • yeğnilik
  • yeğnilmek
  • yeğniltmek

Further reading

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