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Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Proto-Oghuz *čigin. Cognate with Turkish çiğin, dialectal Turkish çekin, Turkmen çigin; possibly also cognate with Chuvash ҫан (śan, “body”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): ,
- Hyphenation: çi‧yin
Noun
çiyin (definite accusative çiyni, plural çiyinlər)
- (anatomy) shoulder
- çiyin çiynə ― shoulder to shoulder, shoulder-to-shoulder
Usage notes
This noun is one of several Azerbaijani nouns which lose their last vowel in the accusative, genitive and dative singular, and in the singular possessive forms (see more Azerbaijani nouns which lose their last vowel).
Declension
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 415
Turkish
Noun
çiyin
- genitive singular of çiy