یاغمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yag- (“to rain”) and thus related to یاغمور (yağmur, “rain”); cognate with Azerbaijani yağmaq, Bashkir яуыу (yawıw), Chuvash ҫу (śu), Kazakh жауу (jauu), Kyrgyz жаа (jaa) and Turkmen ýagmak.

Verb

یاغمق • (yağmak)

  1. (intransitive) to rain, to have rain fall from the sky

Derived terms

  • قار یاغمق (kar yağmak, “to snow”)
  • پك یاغمق (pek yağmak, “to rain heavily”)
  • یاغمه (yağma, “an act of raining”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: yağmak
  • → Armenian: յաղմիշ (yaġmiš)

Further reading

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