Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic جاتۋ
Cyrillic жату
Latin jatu
Yañalif çatu

Etymology

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Cognate with Turkish yatmak, Azerbaijani yatmaq, Uzbek yotmoq.

Verb

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жату (jatu)

  1. to lie (to rest in a horizontal position on a surface)
  2. to have been verbing (Present Perfect Progressive Tense by participle -(X)п or -а/-е + жатыр-)