یوغ

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Persian یوغ (yuğ).

Noun

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یوغ (yug)

  1. yoke, a bar or frame by which two draught animals are joined at their necks
    Synonym: بویوندرق (boyunduruk)

Descendants

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  • Turkish: yug

Further reading

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Persian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From earlier جغ (joğ), from Middle Persian ywg (juğ, yoke), from Proto-Iranian *yugám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yugám, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm. From the same root are جفت (joft) and, via Greek and Arabic, زُوج (zowj), both meaning “pair, couple; partner; even number”. Cognate with English yoke.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? yūğ
Dari reading? yūğ
Iranian reading? yuğ
Tajik reading? yuġ

Noun

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Dari یوغ
Iranian Persian
Tajik юғ

یوغ (yuğ) (plural یوغ‌ها (yuğ-hâ))

  1. yoke
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Descendants

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Urdu

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Etymology

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PIE word
*yugóm

Borrowed from Classical Persian یوغ (yōğ, yoke).

Cognate with Pashto جغ (źëǧ, yoke), Torwali یو (, yoke), and Kalasha جو (ǰu, yoke).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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یوغ (yoġ or yūġ?

  1. yoke, union, joining
  2. yoke used for draught animals
  3. (biology) the fusion of two cells

Derived terms

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References

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  • یوغ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “یوغ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “یوغ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • یوغ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.