یقه

Persian

Alternative forms

• یخه (yaxa / yaxe), (Dari) یخن (yaxan), (Hazaragi) جاغه (jāġa)

Etymology

From a Turkic source, from Proto-Turkic *yaka (“edge; collar”).

Compare Turkish yaka (“collar”), Azerbaijani yaxa (“collar”), Uzbek yoqa (“collar; side; bank”), Uyghur ياقا (yaqa, “collar; side; bank”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ja.ˈqa/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jä.qá]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jä.qá]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [jä.xán]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɔː.ɣá]

 

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [jæ.ʁé]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [jæ.ʁé]
  • (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [jæ.xe]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [jä.qá]

Readings
Classical reading?	yaqa
Dari reading?	yaqa
Iranian reading?	yaġe
Tajik reading?	yaqa

Noun

یقه • (yaqa / yaġe) (plural یقه‌ها (yaqa-hā / yaġe-hâ), Tajik spelling яқа)

1. (Iran) collar

   Synonym: گریبان (girēbān / geribân)

References

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1975), Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 21)‎^[1] (in German), volume IV, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 102–104