еңгә

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Bashkir

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *yeŋe (elder brother's wife).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (jengä, older male relative's wife);[1] Kazakh жеңге (jeñge), Kyrgyz жеңе (jeŋe), Southern Altai јеҥе (ǰeŋe), Uyghur يەڭگە (yengge), Khakas ниге (nige), Yakut саҥас (sañas, older male relative's wife), Turkish yenge (aunt-in-law, one's brother's wife).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [jɪ̞ŋˈɡæ]
  • Hyphenation: ең‧гә

Noun

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еңгә (yeñgə)

  1. the wife of one's elder brother, cousin or other male blood relative (who is older than the speaker but younger than the speaker's parents)

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 256