یارغو

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یارغی (yarğı)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yar- (“to judge, order; call, announcement”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yarɣu), Kazakh жарғы (jarğı), etc.

Noun

یارغو • (yarğı)

1. (law) lawsuit, action, a pleading of litigants before a judge

   Synonym: نزاع (nizaʿ)

2. decision given by a judge or arbitrator, solution, judgement, sentence

   Synonym: قضا (kaza)

Derived terms

• یارغو یری (yarğı yeri, “court of justice”)
• یارغیجی (yarğıcı, “judge, arbitrator”)
• یارغیلامق (yarğılamak, “to hear and decide, ponder”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yargı
• → Armenian: յարգի (yargi)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “yargı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5222
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “یارغو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1337
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Lis”, 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^[2], Vienna, columns 959-960
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “یارغو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5538
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yargı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یارغو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2182