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Turkish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ottoman Turkish ییغناق (yığınak), an obsolete word revived during the language reform to replace the Arabic borrowings mecma and tecemmu. Equivalent to yığın + -ak.
Noun
yığınak (definite accusative yığınağı, plural yığınaklar)
- (military) concentration
- 2023 April 4, headline by Anadolu Agency]:
ABD Pasifik’te yığınağa devam ediyor, Filipinlerde 4 yeni üsse ABD askeri konuşlanacak- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
See also
Further reading
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yığınak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییغناق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2223