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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ایشین (ışın, “flash, gleam, lightning glow”), akin to Old Uyghur (yaşın, “lightning”), derived from Proto-Turkic *jạĺ(č)- (“to blaze, flame”). See ışımak.
Cognate with Bashkir йәшен (yəşen, “lightning”), Chuvash ҫиҫӗм (śiś̬ĕm, “lightning”), Khakas чазын (çazın, “lightning”), Uzbek yashin (“lightning”).
Noun
ışın (definite accusative ışını, plural ışınlar)
- ray of light, ray, beam
- (physics) ray (beam of light or radiation)
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References
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2015-05-07) “ışın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill: “*jạĺ(č)-”