yurt.
A piece of land on which a nation resides and which forms its culture; homeland.
Meaning & usage
A piece of land on which a nation resides and which forms its culture; homeland.
ata yurdu
ana yurt
One's hometown or native country.
A student dormitory, a dorm.
öğrenci yurdu
An institution for people in need of care; a shelter or an orphanage.
yetiştirme yurdu
A tent nomadic Turkic and Mongolic peoples lived in; a yurt.
land, domain, realm
(of plants, animals) natural habitat
The place where Yörüks stay over the summer or winter.
The eye of a needle.
yogurt
An estate, property.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یورت (yurt, “a place of habitation, settlement, home, tent, hut, house, an estate”), from Proto-Turkic *yūrt (“dwelling place, home, camping site”). Compare Karakhanid یُورْتْ (yurt, “remnants of a settlement or a camp site”), Old Turkic 𐰖𐰆𐰺𐱃 (y¹wr¹t¹). Cognates Azerbaijani yurd Bashkir йорт (yort) Chuvash ҫурт (śurt) Crimean Tatar yurt Gagauz yurt Karachay-Balkar джурт (curt) Kazakh жұрт (jurt) Kumyk юрт (yurt) Kyrgyz журт (jurt) Nogai юрт (yurt) Southern Altai јурт (ǰurt) Tatar йорт (yort) yort Turkmen ýurt Uyghur يۇرت (yurt) Uzbek yurt
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