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yurt.

A piece of land on which a nation resides and which forms its culture; homeland.

4 characters1 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈjuɾt/[ˈjuɾ̞t̪]
  1. A piece of land on which a nation resides and which forms its culture; homeland.

    ata yurdu
    ana yurt
  2. One's hometown or native country.

  3. A student dormitory, a dorm.

    öğrenci yurdu
  4. An institution for people in need of care; a shelter or an orphanage.

    yetiştirme yurdu
  5. A tent nomadic Turkic and Mongolic peoples lived in; a yurt.

    rare
  6. land, domain, realm

    figuratively
  7. (of plants, animals) natural habitat

    figuratively
  8. The place where Yörüks stay over the summer or winter.

    dialectal
  9. The eye of a needle.

    regional
  10. yogurt

    regional
  11. An estate, property.

    obsolete
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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