یاغ

See also: باغ‎, تاغ‎‎, باع‎‎, and ناع‎

Khalaj

Noun

یاغ (yâağ) (definite accusative یاغؽ‎, plural یاغلار‎)

1. Arabic spelling of yâağ (“fat, butter”)

Declension

Declension of یاغ

	singular	plural
nominative	یاغ	یاغلار‎
genitive	یاغؽین‎	یاغلارؽین‎
dative	یاغقا‎	یاغا‎
definite accusative	یاغلارقا‎	یاغلارا‎
locative	یاغؽ‎	یاغلارؽ‎
ablative	یاغچا‎	یاغلارچا‎
instrumental	یاغدا‎	یاغلاردا‎
equative	یاغلا‎	یاغلارلا‎
quantitative	یاغوارا‎	یاغلاروارا‎

Ottoman Turkish

یاغ

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yāg (“fat, butter, lard”); cognate with Azerbaijani yağ, Chuvash ҫу (śu), Kazakh жау (jau), Kyrgyz жоон (joon), Tatar яу (yaw), Turkmen ýag, Uyghur ياغ‎ (yagh), Uzbek yoʻg and Yakut сыа (sıa).

Noun

یاغ • (yağ), definitive accusative یاغی‎ (yağı)

1. oil, grease, ointment, pomade, any greasy substance

   Synonym: روغن‎ (revgan, ruğan)

2. fat, lard, a specialized animal tissue with high lipid content
3. butter, a fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk

Derived terms

• بادم یاغی‎ (badem yağı, “almond oil”)
• بالق یاغی‎ (balık yağı, “fish oil”)
• زیتون یاغی‎ (zeytun yağı, “olive oil”)
• ساده یاغ‎ (sade yağ, “clarified butter”)
• طوڭ یاغی‎ (doñ yagı, “tallow”)
• نفت یاغی‎ (neft yağı, “oil of turpentine”)
• چیچك یاغی‎ (çiçek yağı, “sunflower oil”)
• یاغ باغلامق‎ (yağ bağlamak, “to become fat”)
• یاغ بالغی‎ (yağ balığı, “sheatfish”)
• یاغجی‎ (yağcı, “dealer in oil, grease or butter”)
• یاغخانه‎ (yağhane, “oil mill”)
• یاغدان‎ (yağdan, “pomatum box or pot”)
• یاغلامق‎ (yağlamak, “to butter, oil, grease”)
• یاغلق‎ (yağlık, “receptacle for holding butter or oil”)
• یاغلو‎ (yağlı, “fat, greasy, oily”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yağ (“oil, fat”, noun)
• → Armenian: յաղ (yał, “oil”)
• ⇒ Greek: γιαγλίδικος (giaglídikos, “of food, cooked with a lot of oil”, adjective), see γιαγλίδικος at the Greek wiktionary
• ⇒ Pontic Greek: γιαγλίν (giaglín, “greasy”, adjective)

• Pontic Greek: γιαγλία n pl (giaglía, “type of pie with fillings”)

• ⇒ Pontic Greek: γιαγλαεύω (giaglaévo, “to spread oil”, verb)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ја̑г (“type of oriental fragrance, oil”)

  Latin: jȃg

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “yağ1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5152
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “یاغ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1340
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Oleum”, 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, Vienna, column 1199
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “یاغ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5545
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yağ”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یاغ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2187