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TURKISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

yas.

mourning, grieving, lamentation, the act of expressing or feeling sorrow in response to a loss

3 characters1 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun/jɑs/
  1. mourning, grieving, lamentation, the act of expressing or feeling sorrow in response to a loss

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یاس (yas, “mourning, grieving”), from Proto-Turkic *yās (“loss, damage; shame”). The semantic development may have been influenced by unrelated Arabic يَأْس (yaʔs, “despair”), whence also the borrowing yeis. Cognates Cognate with Azerbaijani yas, Chagatai یاس (yās), Old Uyghur 𐽶𐽰𐽻 (yas), Turkmen yās and Yakut саат (saat).

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