یاغمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yag- (“to rain”) and thus related to یاغمور (yağmur, “rain”); cognate with Azerbaijani yağmaq, Bashkir яуыу (yawıw), Chuvash ҫу (śu), Kazakh жауу (jauu), Kyrgyz жаа (jaa) and Turkmen ýagmak.

Verb

یاغمق • (yağmak)

1. (intransitive) to rain, to have rain fall from the sky

Derived terms

• قار یاغمق (kar yağmak, “to snow”)
• پك یاغمق (pek yağmak, “to rain heavily”)
• یاغمه (yağma, “an act of raining”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yağmak
• → Armenian: յաղմիշ (yaġmiš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yağmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5158
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یاغمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 501b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاغمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1340
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pluere”, 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 1309
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یاغمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5546
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yağ-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاغمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2188