yastık
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish یاصدق (yasdıḳ, “bolster, pillow”),[1] from Proto-Turkic *yạŕtuk.
Cognates include Albanian jastëk, Azerbaijani yastıq, Chuvash ҫытар (śyt̬ar), Karakhanid يَسْتُقْ (yastuq), Kazakh жастық (jastyq), Kyrgyz жаздык (jazdık), Serbo-Croatian јастук, Southern Altai јастык (ǰastïk), Yakut сыттык (sıttık).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edityastık (definite accusative yastığı, plural yastıklar)
Declension
editDerived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاصدق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2186
Further reading
edit- “yastık”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu