یأجوج و مأجوج

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Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • (yecuçmecuç)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic يَأْجُوج وَمَأْجُوج (yaʔjūj wa-maʔjūj, “Gog and Magog”).

Proper noun

یأجوج و مأجوج • (yeʼcuc ve meʼcuc)

  1. (Islam) Gog and Magog
  2. Scythians and Cimmerians
  3. mythological peoples of the extreme North, possibly the Eskimo

Descendants

  • →⇒ Albanian: xhuxhmaxhuxh

References

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, pages 1089a, 1335b
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, pages 1653a, 2180b
  • Rocchi, L. (2007) “ecis mecis”, in Ricerche sulla lingua osmanlı del XVI secolo. Il corpus lessicale turco del manoscritto fiorentino di Filippo Argenti (1533) (in Italian), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 90
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