yova

Salar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yāpa. Cognate with Azerbaijani, Turkish yaba, Turkmen ýāba.

Pronunciation

  • (Jiezi, Gaizi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [jovɑ]
  • (Chahandusi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [joːvɑ]
  • (Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA(key): [jowɑ]
  • (Shixiang, Xunhua, Qinghai, 1883-1886) IPA(key): [juvɑ]

Noun

yova

  1. pitchfork, hayfork

References

  • Potanin, G.N. (1893) “юва”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian), page 427
  • Kakuk, S. (1962) “yowa, yowan”, in “Un Vocabulaire Salar”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae[1], volume 14, number 2, Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISBN, pages 173-196
  • Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “yova”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, pages 362, 363
  • Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “jowa”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon[2], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 131