ییغین

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یغین (yığın)
• եըղըն (yığın) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

ییغین • (yığın)

1. heap, pile, mass, a collection of things forming an elevation

   Synonyms: توده (tude), كومه (küme)

Related terms

• ییغمق (yığmak, “to heap, pile”)
• ییغناق (yığınak, “heap, pile”)
• ییغیلو (yığılı, “heaped, piled up”)

Descendants

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

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yığın”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5314
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یغین”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 507b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یغین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1353
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cumulus”, 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 309
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یغین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5582
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yığın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییغین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2223