јаа

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yā(y) (“bow”). Cognate with Kazakh жай (jai), Kyrgyz жаа (jaa), Kumyk жая (jaya), Azerbaijani yay, Turkish yay, Turkmen ýāý, Uzbek yoy, Shor чачақ, Tuvan ча (ça), Western Yugur ya (“arrow”), etc.

Noun

јаа • (ǰaa)

  1. bow

References
  • N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “јаа”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN
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