yanaq

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Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic јанаг
Abjad یاناق

Etymology

From Common Turkic. According to Dybo, the Proto-Turkic *yạyŋak is reconstructable [1]. Cognate with Turkish yanak, etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [jɑˈnɑχ]
  • Hyphenation: ya‧naq

Noun

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  1. (anatomy) cheek (soft part of a face)
    kimisə yanağından öpməkto kiss somebody on the cheek

Declension

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jạjŋak”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill