жеңге

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Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic جەڭگە
Cyrillic жеңге
Latin jeñge
Yañalif çeꞑge

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yeŋe (the wife of one's elder brother).

Cognate with Old Turkic (yengä, older male relative's wife); Turkish yenge (wife of one's brother or uncle), or, dialectally, "a woman that guides the bride on her wedding night", Crimean Tatar yeñge, Azerbaijani yengə, Kyrgyz жеңе (jeŋe), Southern Altai јеҥе (ǰeŋe), Uyghur يەڭگە (yengge), Yakut саҥас (sañas, older male relative's wife) Bashkir еңгә (yeñgə, the wife of one's elder brother), etc.

Noun

жеңге (jeñge)

  1. sister-in-law (the wife of one's elder brother)
  2. female matchmaker

Declension