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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish یاصدق (yasdıḳ, “bolster, pillow”),[1] from Proto-Turkic *yạŕtuk.
Cognates include Albanian jastëk, Azerbaijani yastıq, Chuvash ҫытар (śyt̬ar), Karakhanid يَسْتُقْ (yastuq), Kazakh жастық (jastyq), Kyrgyz жаздык (jazdık), Serbo-Croatian јастук, Southern Altai јастык (ǰastïk), Yakut сыттык (sıttık).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jasˈtɯk/
- Hyphenation: yas‧tık
Noun
yastık (definite accusative yastığı, plural yastıklar)
- pillow, cushion, bolster
- Synonym: kırlent
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References
Further reading
- “yastık”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu