Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish یاغمق (yağmak, to rain, to come down in a shower), from Proto-Turkic *yag- (to rain).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yaɣ-, to pour, rain), Azerbaijani yağmaq, Bashkir яуыу (yawıw), Kazakh жауу (jauu), Kyrgyz жаа (jaa), Khakas чаарға (çaarğa), Turkmen ýagmak, Tuvan чаар (çaar), Uzbek yogʻmoq.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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yağmak (third-person singular simple present yağar)

  1. (intransitive) to rain, to snow, to hail; to shower, or fall abundantly (on/upon)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jag-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill