یاقه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yaka (“collar, edge”); cognate with Azerbaijani yaxa, Bashkir яға (yağa), Chuvash ҫуха (śuh̬a), Kazakh жаға (jağa), Kyrgyz жака (jaka), Uyghur ياقا (yaqa), Uzbek yoqa and Yakut саҕа (sağa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [jɑˈkɑ]

Noun

یاقه • (yaka) (definite accusative یاقه‌یی (yakayı), plural یاقه‌لر (yakalar))

  1. collar, the part of a garment that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric
    Synonym: گریبان (giriban)
  2. (figuratively) skirt, the border, edge, margin or extreme part of a mountain, sea, river, or other geographical feature
    Synonyms: اتك (etek), راغ (rağ)
  3. (nautical) any one of the four sides of a quadrangular sail which define its shape, e.g. head, leech, foot and luff

Derived terms

  • بورینه یاقه‌سی (burina yakası, “leach of a sail”)
  • یاقه خلاطی (yaka halatı, “boltrope of a sail”)
  • یاقه دیوشیرمك (yaka divşirmek, “to draw together one's garment”)
  • یاقه سیلكمك (yaka silkmek, “to beg for help”)
  • یاقه پاچه ایتمك (yaka paça etmek, “to take away by force”)
  • یاقه یاقه‌یه كلمك (yaka yakaya gelmek, “to seize each other by the collar”)
  • یاقه یرتمق (yaka yırtmak, “to tyrannise”)
  • یاقه‌دن كچورمك (yakadan geçirmek, “to adopt an infant”)
  • یاقه‌سندن طوتمق (yakasından tutmak, “to lay hands on”)
  • یاقه‌سی آچلمدق (yakası açılmadık, “unheard-of, incredible”)
  • یاقه‌لاتمق (yakalatmak, “to make or let be furnished with a collar”)
  • یاقه‌لامق (yakalamak, “to put a collar to a garment”)
  • یاقه‌لانمق (yakalanmak, “to become furnished with a collar”)
  • یاقه‌لق (yakalık, “any material fit for a collar”)
  • یاقه‌یی اله ویرمك (yakayı ele vermek, “to betray oneself”)
  • یاقه‌یی قورتارمق (yakayı kurtarmak, “to escape, save one's self”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: yaka
  • → Albanian: jakë
  • → Arabic: يَاقَة (yāqa)
  • → Armenian: յախա (yaxa)
  • → Aromanian: iácã, yiácã
  • → Bulgarian: яка́ (jaká)
  • → Greek: γιακάς (giakás)
  • → Ladino: yaká
  • → Laz: ჲაქა (yaka)
  • → Macedonian: јака (jaka)
  • → Romanian: iaca
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ја̏ка
    Latin script: jȁka

Further reading

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