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یوجا

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Kipchak

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Etymology 1

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Cognate with Turkish uca (coccyx).

Noun

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یوجا (yüčä)

  1. back (of the body)

Etymology 2

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Cognate with Azerbaijani uca (high), Turkish yüce.

Noun

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یوجا (yüčä)

  1. top, highest part of anything

Adjective

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یوجا (yüčä)

  1. high

Usage notes

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  • Read by Houtsma as yüčä, whereas Tekin (1994) interpretes it as yuca, with back vowels.

References

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  • Houtsma, Martin Theodor (1894) Ein türkisch-arabisches Glossar, nach der Leidener Handschrift herausgegeben und erläutert[1], Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 109
  • Houtsma, Martin Theodor (1894) Ein türkisch-arabisches Glossar, nach der Leidener Handschrift herausgegeben und erläutert[2], Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 21 (٢١) line 1
  • Tekin, Talat (1994) “Türk Dillerinde Önseste y- Türemesi [The origin of word-initial y- in Turkic languages]”, in Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları[3], volume 4, Ankara, page 58 of 51-66