یوغ

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian یوغ (yuğ).

Noun

یوغ (yug)

  1. yoke, a bar or frame by which two draught animals are joined at their necks
    Synonym: بویوندرق (boyunduruk)

Descendants

  • Turkish: yug

Further reading

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From earlier جغ (joğ), from Middle Persian ywg (juğ, yoke), from Proto-Iranian *yugám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yugám, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm. From the same root are جفت (joft) and, via Greek and Arabic, زُوج (zowj), both meaning “pair, couple; partner; even number”. Cognate with English yoke.

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? yūğ
Dari reading? yūğ
Iranian reading? yuğ
Tajik reading? yuġ

Noun

Dari یوغ
Iranian Persian
Tajik юғ

یوغ (yuğ) (plural یوغ‌ها (yuğ-hâ))

  1. yoke

Related terms

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

PIE word
*yugóm

Borrowed from Classical Persian یوغ (yōğ, yoke).

Cognate with Pashto جغ (źëǧ, yoke), Torwali یو (, yoke), and Kalasha جو (ǰu, yoke).

Pronunciation

Noun

یوغ (yoġ or yūġ?

  1. yoke, union, joining
  2. yoke used for draught animals
  3. (biology) the fusion of two cells

Derived terms

Related terms

References

  • یوغ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “یوغ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884), “یوغ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
  • یوغ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.