yanaq

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic јанаг
Roman yanaq
Perso-Arabic یاناق

Etymology

From Common Turkic. According to Dybo, the Proto-Turkic *yạyŋak is reconstructable [1]. Cognate with Turkish yanak, etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [jɑˈnɑχ]
  • Hyphenation: ya‧naq

Noun

yanaq (definite accusative yanağı, plural yanaqlər)

  1. (anatomy) cheek (soft part of a face)
    kimisə yanağından öpməkto kiss somebody on the cheek

Declension

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *jạjŋak”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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