yalak
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یالاق (yalaḳ, “trough for feeding or watering beasts”),[1] from Proto-Turkic *yālgak, from *yālga- (“to lick”),[2][3] morphologically yala- + -k.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
yalak (definite accusative yalağı, plural yalaklar)
- trough (a long, narrow, open container for feeding animals)
Declension edit
References edit
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یالاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2191
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jālga-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yalak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading edit
- “yalak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu