yığınak

Turkish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ottoman Turkish ییغناق (yığınak), an obsolete word revived during the language reform to replace the Arabic borrowings mecma and tecemmu. Equivalent to yığın +‎ -ak.

Noun

yığınak (definite accusative yığınağı, plural yığınaklar)

1. (military) concentration
   • 2023 April 4, headline by Anadolu Agency[1]]:

     ABD Pasifik’te yığınağa devam ediyor, Filipinlerde 4 yeni üsse ABD askeri konuşlanacak

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

See also

• tahşidat

Further reading

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yığınak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییغناق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2223