یاغ

See also: باغ, تاغ, باع, ناع, and ياغ

Khalaj

Noun

یاغ (yâğ, yâağ) (definite accusative یاغؽ, plural یاغلار)

1. Arabic spelling of yâğ, yâağ (“fat, butter”)

Declension

Declension of یاغ

	singular	plural
nominative	یاغ	یاغلار
genitive	یاغؽݧ	یاغلارؽݧ
dative	یاغقا	یاغلارقا
definite accusative	یاغؽ	یاغلارؽ
locative	یاغچا	یاغلارچا
ablative	یاغدا	یاغلاردا
instrumental	یاغلا	یاغلارلا
equative	یاغوارا	یاغلاروارا

Ottoman Turkish

یاغ

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yāg (“fat, butter, lard”); cognate with Azerbaijani yağ, Chuvash ҫу (śu), Kazakh жау (jau), Kyrgyz жоон (joon), Tatar яу (yaw), Turkmen ýag, Uyghur ياغ (yagh), Uzbek yoʻg and Yakut сыа (sıa).

Noun

یاغ • (yağ) (definite accusative یاغی (yağı), plural یاغلر (yağlar))

1. oil, grease, ointment, pomade, any greasy substance

   Synonym: روغن (revgan, ruğan)

2. butter, a fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk

   Synonym: روغن (revgan, ruğan)

3. fat, lard, a specialized animal tissue with high lipid content

Derived terms

• بادم یاغی (badem yağı, “almond oil”)
• بالق یاغی (balık yağı, “fish oil”)
• زیتون یاغی (zeytun yağı, “olive oil”)
• ساده یاغ (sade yağ, “clarified butter”)
• طوڭ یاغی (doñ yagı, “tallow”)
• نفت یاغی (neft yağı, “oil of turpentine”)
• چیچك یاغی (çiçek yağı, “sunflower oil”)
• یاغ باغلامق (yağ bağlamak, “to become fat”)
• یاغ بالغی (yağ balığı, “sheatfish”)
• یاغجی (yağcı, “dealer in oil, grease or butter”)
• یاغخانه (yağhane, “oil mill”)
• یاغدان (yağdan, “pomatum box or pot”)
• یاغلامق (yağlamak, “to butter, oil, grease”)
• یاغلق (yağlık, “receptacle for holding butter or oil”)
• یاغلو (yağlı, “fat, greasy, oily”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yağ (“oil, fat”, noun)
• → Armenian: յաղ (yaġ, “oil”)
• ⇒ Greek: γιαγλίδικος (giaglídikos, “of food, cooked with a lot of oil”, adjective), see γιαγλίδικος at the Greek wiktionary
• ⇒ Pontic Greek: γιαγλίν (giaglín, “greasy”, adjective)

• Pontic Greek: γιαγλία n pl (giaglía, “type of pie with fillings”)

• ⇒ Pontic Greek: γιαγλαεύω (giaglaévo, “to spread oil”, verb)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ја̑г (“type of oriental fragrance, oil”)

  Latin script: jȃg

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yağ1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5152
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یاغ”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 501b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاغ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1340
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Oleum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1199
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یاغ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5545
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yağ”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاغ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2187