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)