yorga
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]yorga (plural yorgas)
- (Australian Aboriginal) A woman, especially an Aboriginal woman. [from 20th c.]
- 1910, E. Hassell, My Dusky Friends
- At last he took a third york. She was a foolish young thing, but very fond of him ... he paid her more attention than the generality of husbands.
- 1968, W. H. Douglas, Aboriginal Language of south-west Australia
- ‘Yokas’ is ‘girls’ (Note the English plural suffix on yoka).
- 1981, Archie Weller, Day of Dog
- ‘Not much work going ’ere, orright, drinkin’ gabba and smokin’. Where’s all the yorgas?’ Pretty Boy grins.
- 1982, J. Davis, Kullark
- I’ll tell you what ’e’ll do, e’ll finish up marryin’ some Wetjala yok, ’ave blue-eyed kids and ’e won’t want nothing to do with us.
- 1986, A. Weller, Going Home
- ‘Yeah. Us blokes are fuckin’ muritch,’ said Morry lazily ... ‘Ssh, youse mob. Couple yorgas comin’ in.’
- 1991, G. Ward, Unna you fullas
- Their mother had told them he met a yorga, whom he was mardong for.
- 1996, Alf Taylor, ‘The Wool Pickers’, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 174:
- ‘Right,’ said the old fella, ‘I'll get the ute ready, an' tell Auntie Florrie you an' me goin' out. You tell your yorgah too.’
- 1910, E. Hassell, My Dusky Friends
Michoacán Mazahua
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[edit]yorga
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yor(ɨ)- (“to walk”). Cognate with Bashkir юрға (yurğa), Kyrgyz жорго (jorgo), Southern Altai јорго (ǰorgo), Khakas чорға (çorğa), Uzbek yoʻrgʻa, Uyghur يورغا (yorgha), Turkmen ýorga, Kazakh жорға (jorğa), Yakut дьоруо (joruo, “ambling gait; a horse with such a gait”).
Pronunciation
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[edit]yorga (definite accusative yorgayı, plural yorgalar)
- a certain type of horse gait that keeps the rider stable
Declension
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- English terms borrowed from Nyunga
- English terms derived from Nyunga
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- Australian Aboriginal English
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- Michoacán Mazahua lemmas
- Michoacán Mazahua nouns
- Turkish terms inherited from Proto-Turkic
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- Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish nouns