yengə

From Proto-Turkic *yeŋe (“elder brother's wife”). Cognate with Old Turkic (yengä, “older male relative's wife”); Turkish yenge (“wife of one's brother or uncle”), or, dialectally, "a woman that guides the bride on her wedding night", Crimean Tatar yeñge, Kazakh жеңге (jeñge), Kyrgyz жеңе (jeŋe), Southern Altai јеҥе (ǰeŋe), Uyghur يەڭگە (yengge), Yakut саҥас (sañas, “older male relative's wife”) Bashkir еңгә (yeñgə, “the wife of one's elder brother”).

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• Hyphenation: yen‧gə

yengə (definite accusative yengəni, plural yengələr)

1. A woman who guides the bride and prepares her for the nuptial night, follows her to the bridegroom's house, and, upon the consummation of marriage, brings the sheets covered with blood stains back to the parents' house as a token of the bride's virginity; sometimes also functions as a matchmaker.

   yengə getmək ― to do the duties of a yengə

   oğlan yengəsi ― a yengə from the bridegroom's side

   qız yengəsi ― a yengə from the bride's side

   Yengəsiz toy toy deyil. ― A wedding without a yengə is no wedding.

2. (dialectal, otherwise archaic) wife of one's brother or brother-in-law ^{[nt. 1]}

• yengəlik

• → Talysh: yengə

• Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “yengə”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language]‎ (in Azerbaijani), volume III, Baku: Şərq-Qərb, page 578

From Azerbaijani yengə.

yengə (Cyrillic јенҝә)

1. A woman who guides the bride on her wedding night.

• Pirejko, L. A. (1976) “јенҝә”, in Talyšsko-russkij slovarʹ [Talysh–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 115