yiğit
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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 [script needed] (yigit), Azerbaijani igid, Bashkir егет (yeget), Crimean Tatar yiğit, Gagauz yit, Karaim iğit, Karakalpak jigit, Kazakh жігіт (jıgıt), Kyrgyz жигит (jigit), Nogai йигит (yigit), Karachay-Balkar джигит (cigit), Southern Altai јиит (ǰiit) or јигит (ǰigit), Tatar егет (yeget), Uyghur يىگىت (yigit), Uzbek yigit, Shor чиңет etc.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]yiğit
Noun
[edit]yiğit (definite accusative yiğidi, plural yiğitler)