یأجوج و مأجوج
Ottoman Turkish edit
Alternative forms edit
- [script needed] (yecuçmecuç)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic يَأْجُوج وَمَأْجُوج (yaʔjūj wa-maʔjūj, “Gog and Magog”).
Proper noun edit
یأجوج و مأجوج • (yeʼcuc ve meʼcuc)
- (Islam) Gog and Magog
- Scythians and Cimmerians
- mythological peoples of the extreme North, possibly the Eskimo
Descendants edit
- →⇒ Albanian: xhuxhmaxhuxh
References edit
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, pages 1089a, 1335b
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, pages 1653a, 2180b
- Rocchi, L. (2007) “ecis mecis”, in Ricerche sulla lingua osmanlı del XVI secolo. Il corpus lessicale turco del manoscritto fiorentino di Filippo Argenti (1533) (in Italian), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 90