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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish یگیت (yigit), from Proto-Turkic *yegit, *yigit, likely equivalent to yeğ (“preferable, better, best”) + -it, perhaps an old plural suffix.
Cognate with Old Turkic (yigit), Azerbaijani igid, Bashkir егет (yeget), Crimean Tatar yigit, Gagauz iit, Karaim igit, Karakalpak jigit, Kazakh жігіт (jıgıt), Kyrgyz жигит (jigit), Nogai йигит (yigit), Karachay-Balkar джигит (cigit), Southern Altai јиит (ǰiit), јигит (ǰigit), Tatar егет (yeget), Uyghur يىگىت (yigit),
Uzbek yigit, Shor чиңет (čiŋet), Khakas чиит (çiit) etc.
Pronunciation
Adjective
yiğit
- heroic
Noun
yiğit (definite accusative yiğidi, plural yiğitler)
- wight, brave one
Declension