yağmaq

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic јағмаг
Roman yağmaq
Perso-Arabic یاغماق

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yag- (to rain).[1] Cognate with Turkish yağmak, Kazakh жауу (jaww), Chuvash ҫу (śu), etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jɑɣˈmɑχ/
  • Hyphenation: yağ‧maq

Verb

yağmaq

  1. (intransitive) to rain
    Yağış yağır
    It is raining.
    (literally, “The rain is raining.”)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • yağdırmaq (to shower, heap)
  • yağış (rain)
    • yağışlı (rainy)
    • yağışlıq (rain)
  • yağmur (rain)
    • yağmurlu (rainy)
      • yağmurluluq (raininess)
  • yağın (precipitation)
    • yağıntı (precipitation)
      • yağıntılı (rainy)
      • yağıntılıq (raininess)

References

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

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yag- (to rain).

Verb

yağmaq

  1. to shower, to rain

Conjugation

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