түрмэ
Appearance
Yakut
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Russian тюрьма (tjurʹma), itself possibly from an older Turkic source (see the Russian entry for more).
Noun
[edit]түрмэ • (türme)
- (criminal law) prison
- Synonym: хаайыы (qaayıı)
- түүнүктээх түрмэ ― tüünükteeq türme ― a musty prison (a common epithet for prison itself, cf. Eng. "the hole")
- түрмэ хаайыыта ― türme qaayııta ― prison sentence
- түрмэ хоһо ― türme qoho ― prison cell