жеңге
Kazakh
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *yeŋe (“the wife of one's elder brother”).
Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yengä, “older male relative's wife”); Turkish yenge (“wife of one's brother or uncle”), or, dialectally, "a woman that guides the bride on her wedding night", Crimean Tatar yeñge, Azerbaijani yengə, Kyrgyz жеңе (jeŋe), Southern Altai јеҥе (ǰeŋe), Uyghur يەڭگە (yengge), Yakut саҥас (sañas, “older male relative's wife”) Bashkir еңгә (yeñgə, “the wife of one's elder brother”), etc.
Noun
жеңге • (jeñge)
- sister-in-law (the wife of one's elder brother)
- female matchmaker
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | жеңге (jeñge) | жеңгелер (jeñgeler) |
| genitive | жеңгенің (jeñgenıñ) | жеңгелердің (jeñgelerdıñ) |
| dative | жеңгеге (jeñgege) | жеңгелерге (jeñgelerge) |
| accusative | жеңгені (jeñgenı) | жеңгелерді (jeñgelerdı) |
| locative | жеңгеде (jeñgede) | жеңгелерде (jeñgelerde) |
| ablative | жеңгеден (jeñgeden) | жеңгелерден (jeñgelerden) |
| instrumental | жеңгемен (jeñgemen) | жеңгелермен (jeñgelermen) |