Chuvash

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Etymology

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Cognate to Kazakh жалау (jalau).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ялав (jalav) (plural ялавсем) 

  1. flag

Nogai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *yālga-.[1][2] Cognate to Karakalpak jalaw, etc.

Verb

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ялав (yalav)

  1. (intransitive) to lick

References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yala:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 919
  2. ^ 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

Tabasaran

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Etymology

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From Turkic, compare Azerbaijani alov.

Noun

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ялав (jalav)

  1. flame