ياغماق

Uyghur
Other scripts
Perso-Arabic ياغماق
Latin ‍yaghmaq‍
Cyrillic яғмақ

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yag- (“to rain”).[1]

Cognate with Turkish yağmak, Old Turkic [script needed] (yaɣ-, “to pour, rain”), Azerbaijani yağmaq, Bashkir яуыу (yawıw), Kazakh жауу (jauu), Khakas чаарға (çaarğa), Turkmen ýagmak, Tuvan чаар (çaar), Uzbek yogʻmoq.

Verb

ياغماق • (yaghmaq)

  1. to rain, shower
  2. to come in a continuous flow

References
  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jag-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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