йәйә

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Etymology

From *yaya (“bow”), from Proto-Turkic *yā(y) (“bow”).

Immediately comparable to Tatar җәя (cäya, “bow”), Karachay-Balkar джая (caya, “bow”); further, compare with Old Uyghur (ja, “bow”); Kazakh жай (jai, “bow”), Uzbek yoy (“bow; bracket”), Turkmen ýaý (“bow”), Azerbaijani yay (“bow”), Turkish yay (“bow”); Kyrgyz жаа (jaa, “bow”), Southern Altai јаа (ǰaa, “bow”), Tuvan ча (ça, “bow”) Yakut саа (saa, “rifle”).

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: йә‧йә

Noun

йәйә • (yəyə)

1. bow, weapon used to shoot arrows
2. (punctuation mark, mathematics) bracket(s), (a pair of) parenthesis

   Уртаҡ үҙгәреүсәнде йәйә тышына сығарып күсереп яҙайыҡ.

   Urtaq üźgərewsənde yəyə tışına sığarıp küserep yaźayıq.

   Let us rewrite (the expression) by taking the common variable outside of the brackets.

Declension

See also

• уҡ (uq, “arrow”)
• һаҙаҡ (haźaq, “quiver”)
• атыу (atıw, “to shoot”)

References