akın

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈkɯ́n/
• Hyphenation: a‧kın

From Ottoman Turkish آقین (aqïn, “rushing tumultuously like a torrent, a foray, raid”), from Old Anatolian Turkish (aqïn, “raid”), from Proto-Turkic *iak-ïn (“flow, stream”), from Proto-Turkic *iak- (“to flow”). See akmak (“to flow”).

Cognate with Old Uyghur 𐽰𐽰𐽲𐽶𐽺 (akïn, “fluid, liquid”), Karakhanid اَقِنْ (aqïn, “stream, sudden rush of water”), (aqïnčï, “raider”), Kipchak (aqïn, “raid”), Kazakh ағын (ağyn, “flow”).

akın (definite accusative akını, plural akınlar)

1. influx, inflow, flow
2. foray, invasion
3. raid
   • 1961, Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, “Akıncı”, in Kendi Gök Kubbemiz:

     Bin atlı akınlarda, çocuklar gibi şendik.
     We were merry as children at the raids which had a thousand riders.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. rush, incursion, irruption
5. spate
6. exodus

akın

1. third-person singular possessive of ak
2. third-person singular genitive of ak

• IPA^(key): /ˈaˌkɯn/
• Hyphenation: a‧kın

akın

1. second-person plural imperative of akmak

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “akın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “akın”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 87
• “akın”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu