жеңге

Kazakh

Alternative scripts

Arabic	جەڭگە
Cyrillic	жеңге
Latin	jeñge

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yeŋe (“the wife of one's elder brother”).

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yengä, “older male relative's wife”); Turkish yenge (“wife of one's brother or uncle”), or, dialectally, "a woman that guides the bride on her wedding night", Crimean Tatar yeñge, Azerbaijani yengə, Kyrgyz жеңе (jeŋe), Southern Altai јеҥе (ǰeŋe), Uyghur يەڭگە (yengge), Yakut саҥас (saŋas, “older male relative's wife”) Bashkir еңгә (yeñgə, “the wife of one's elder brother”), etc.

Noun

жеңге • (jeñge)

1. sister-in-law (the wife of one's elder brother)
2. female matchmaker

Declension

Declension of жеңге

	singular	plural
nominative	жеңге (jeñge)	жеңгелер (jeñgeler)
genitive	жеңгенің (jeñgenıñ)	жеңгелердің (jeñgelerdıñ)
dative	жеңгеге (jeñgege)	жеңгелерге (jeñgelerge)
accusative	жеңгені (jeñgenı)	жеңгелерді (jeñgelerdı)
locative	жеңгеде (jeñgede)	жеңгелерде (jeñgelerde)
ablative	жеңгеден (jeñgeden)	жеңгелерден (jeñgelerden)
instrumental	жеңгемен (jeñgemen)	жеңгелермен (jeñgelermen)
similative	жеңгедей (jeñgedei)	жеңгелердей (jeñgelerdei)