FromProto-Turkic*yagï(“enemy; war”); cognate withOld Turkic𐰖𐰍𐰃(y¹ǧi),Azerbaijaniyağı,Chuvashҫу(śu),Kazakhжау(jau),Kyrgyzжоо(joo),Tatarяу(yaw),Turkmenýagy,Uyghurياۋ(yaw),Uzbekyov andYakutсыа кар(sïa kar).
یاغی• (yağı)
- stranger,foreigner,alien
- enemy,foe,unfriend
- Synonyms:دشمن(düşman),خصم(hasm, hasım)
یاغی• (yağı)
- definite accusative ofیاغ(yağ)
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “yağı”, inÖtüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat,page5154
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yağı”, inNişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یاغی”, inA Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian,page1226
Borrowed fromTurkic, ultimately fromProto-Turkic*yagï(“enemy”). Early attestations includeThe Alchemy of Happiness, from the early 1100s.
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| Classical reading? | yāġī |
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| Dari reading? | yāġī |
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| Iranian reading? | yâġi |
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| Tajik reading? | yoġi |
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یاغی• (yâġi)
- rebel,outlaw
- Synonyms:شورشی(šureši),متمرّد(motamarred)
- (obsolete)enemy,foe
- Synonym:دشمن(došman)
1310s,Rashīd al-Dīn, “History of the Nations of the Kings of China”, inجامع التواريخ [Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh]:در آن عهد، معهود چنان بوده که به وقت وصالیاغی بر کوه آتش افروختندی و دهل زدندی، و بدان سبب امرا واقف میگشتند و حاضر میشدند.- dar ān ahd, ma'hud činān būda ki ba waqt-i wisāl-iyāġī bar kōh ātiš afrōxtandē u duhul zadandē, u bad-ān sabab umarā wāqif mē-gaštand u hāzir mē-šudand.
- In those days, the rule was that upon encountering theenemy, fires would be lit and drums beaten on top of the mountains, so that the generals would become aware thereby and make preparations.
یاغی• (yâġi)
- rebellious
- Synonyms:سرکش(sarkeš),متمرّد(motamarred)
FromPashtoیاغی(yāğī).
یاغی (yāğī)
- rebel,rebels,rebellious,disloyal
