یوغ

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian یوغ (yuğ).

Noun

یوغ • (yug)

  1. yoke, a bar or frame by which two draught animals are joined at their necks
    Synonym: بویوندرق (boyunduruk)

Descendants

  • Turkish: yug

Further reading

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From earlier جغ (joğ), from Middle Persian ywg (juğ, “yoke”), from Proto-Iranian *yugám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yugám, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm. From the same root are جفت (joft) and, via Greek and Arabic, زُوج (zowj), both meaning “pair, couple; partner; even number”. Cognate with English yoke.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? yūğ
Dari reading? yūğ
Iranian reading? yuğ
Tajik reading? yuġ

Noun

Dari یوغ
Iranian Persian
Tajik юғ

یوغ • (yuğ) (plural یوغ‌ها (yuğ-hâ))

  1. yoke

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

PIE word
*yugóm

Borrowed from Classical Persian یوغ (yōğ, “yoke”).

Cognate with Pashto جغ (źëǧ, “yoke”), Torwali یو (yū, “yoke”), and Kalasha جو (ǰu, “yoke”).

Pronunciation

Noun

یوغ • (yoġ or yūġ) ?

  1. yoke, union, joining
  2. yoke used for draught animals
  3. (biology) the fusion of two cells

Derived terms

References

  • “یوغ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “یوغ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “یوغ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • “یوغ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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