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yiğit.

heroic

5 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

adj/jiɣit/[ji.it][jiːt]
  1. heroic

Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish یگیت (yigit), from Proto-Turkic *yegit, *yigit, likely equivalent to yeğ (“preferable, better, best”) + -it, perhaps an old plural suffix. Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yigit), Azerbaijani igid, Bashkir егет (yeget), Crimean Tatar yigit, Gagauz iit, Karaim igit, Karakalpak jigit, Kazakh жігіт (jigit), Kyrgyz жигит (jigit), Nogai йигит (yigit), Karachay-Balkar джигит (cigit), Southern Altai јиит (ǰiit), јигит (ǰigit), Tatar егет (yeget), Uyghur يىگىت (yigit), Uzbek yigit, Shor чиңет (čiŋet), Khakas чиит (çiit) etc.

noun/jiɣit/[ji.it][jiːt]
  1. wight, brave one

Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish یگیت (yigit), from Proto-Turkic *yegit, *yigit, likely equivalent to yeğ (“preferable, better, best”) + -it, perhaps an old plural suffix. Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yigit), Azerbaijani igid, Bashkir егет (yeget), Crimean Tatar yigit, Gagauz iit, Karaim igit, Karakalpak jigit, Kazakh жігіт (jigit), Kyrgyz жигит (jigit), Nogai йигит (yigit), Karachay-Balkar джигит (cigit), Southern Altai јиит (ǰiit), јигит (ǰigit), Tatar егет (yeget), Uyghur يىگىت (yigit), Uzbek yigit, Shor чиңет (čiŋet), Khakas чиит (çiit) etc.

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