жану

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	جانۋ
Cyrillic	жану
Latin	janu
Yañalif	çanu

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *jan- (“to burn (intr.), blaze up”). Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (yan-, “to burn”), Crimean Tatar yanmaq (“to burn”), Bashkir яныу (yanıw, “to burn”), Chuvash ҫунма (śunma, “to burn, shine, worry, suffer”), Kyrgyz жануу (januu, “to burn”), Turkmen ýanmak (“to be burnt”), Uzbek yonmoq (“to ignite, glow”), Yakut сандаар (sandaar, “to shine”), etc.

Noun

жану • (janu)

1. combustion

Verb

жану • (janu)

1. burn