یغما

Borrowed from Turkic, probably from Proto-Turkic *yag- (“to fall from the sky (of rain, snow, etc.)”) with a figurative sense of "to fall upon, to attack, to raid", which then transferred to "the outcome of a raid; booty, pillage". Compare Turkish yağma (“raiding, looting; sack, pillage”).

Attested in Persian since the eleventh century.

یغما • (yaġmâ)

1. booty; plunder
   • c. 1911, Mohammad Hossein Âğuli Torki-ye Shirâzi, دیوان ترکی شیرازی‎^[1]:

     چشم تو و خط و خالت ای بت رعنا
     برده زمن عقل و صبر و هوش به یغما

     čašm-e to o xat o xâl-at ey bot-e ra'nâ
     borde zaman-e aql o sabr o huš be yaġmâ

     Your eye and your down and your beauty-mark, o beautiful idol,
     Has carried off as plunder the time for reason and patience and wisdom.

یغما • (yaġmâ)

1. (historical) the Yagma (medieval Turkic tribe)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “یغما”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim