ییغلاماق

Chagatai

Alternative forms

یغلاماق (yiğlamaq)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yï̄gla- (“to weep”).

Cognates

Verb

ییغلاماق (yiğlamaq) (third-person signular aorist ییغلار (yiğlar))

(intransitive) to cry, to weep, to shed tears; to emit tears from the eye, especially as an expression of emotion
Synonyms: اوکورماک (ügürmäk), بوزلاماق (bozlamaq), مویه قیلماق (mūyä qilmaq)

قان ییغلاماق ― qan yiğlamaq ― to cry bitterly (literally, “to cry blood”)
- 1484, Ali-Shir Nava'i, فرهاد و شیرین [Farhad and Shirin], page 292b:
  سالیبان بیربیری‌نینگ بوینی‌غا قول
  انکا گه مونکا گه ییغلادی اول
  saliban birbiri-niŋ boyniģa qol
  aŋa gäh muŋa gäh yiğladi ol
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

ییغلاتماق (yiğlatmaq, “to make cry”)
ییغلاشماق (yiğlašmaq, “to cry mutually”)
ییغلاغور (yiğlağur, “one who cries”)
ییغلاماغ (yiğlamağ, “cry, weeping”)
ییغلامسیماق (yiğlamsimaq, “to whimper, to sob”)
ییغلانقو (yiğlanqu, “an act of crying”)
ییغلانیماق (yiğlanimaq, “to be in tears, to be devastated”)

Descendants

Uzbek: yigʻlamoq
Uyghur: يىغلىماق (yighlimaq)

Further reading

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Shaw, Robert Barkley (1880) “ییغلاماق”, in “Turki-English vocabulary” (chapter 2), in A Sketch of the Turki Language as Spoken in Eastern Turkistan (Káshgar and Yarkand)‎^[1], Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, page 199
el-Buhari, Süleyman Özbeki (1881) “ییغلاماق”, in لغت چغتای و ترکی عثمانی [Ottoman Turkish-Chagatai Dictionary]‎^[2] (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, page 312
Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “ییغلامق”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎^[3] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 555
Vámbery, Ármin (1867) “ییغلاماق”, in Ćagataische sprachstudien‎^[4] (in German), Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, page 357
Schluessel, Eric (2018) “ییغلا”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources‎^[5], Michigan Publishing, page 172