akın
Turkish
FWOTD – 26 August 2016
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑˈkɯ́n/
- Hyphenation: a‧kın
Etymology 1
From Ottoman Turkish آقین (aqïn, “rushing tumultuously like a torrent, a foray, raid”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (aqïn, “raid”), from Proto-Turkic *ak-ïn (“flow, stream”), from Proto-Turkic *ak- (“to flow”). See akmak (“to flow”).
Cognate with Old Uyghur 𐽰𐽰𐽲𐽶𐽺 (akïn, “fluid, liquid”), Karakhanid اَقِنْ (aqïn, “stream, sudden rush of water”), [script needed] (aqïnčï, “raider”), Kipchak [script needed] (aqïn, “raid”), Kazakh ағын (ağyn, “flow”).
Noun
akın (definite accusative akını, plural akınlar)
- influx, inflow, flow
- foray, invasion
- raid
- 1961, Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, “Akıncı”, in Kendi Gök Kubbemiz:
- Bin atlı akınlarda, çocuklar gibi şendik.
We were merry as children at the raids which had a thousand riders.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- rush, incursion, irruption
- spate
- exodus
Declension
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Related terms
- akın akın
- akın etmek
- akıncı
- akınlı
- akınlık
- akınsız
- akmak
Etymology 2
Noun
akın
- third-person singular possessive of ak
- third-person singular genitive of ak
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaˌkɯn/
- Hyphenation: a‧kın
Verb
akın
- second-person plural imperative of akmak
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “akın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “akın”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 87
- “akın”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu