یاغی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yagï (“enemy; war”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖𐰍𐰃 (y¹ǧi), Azerbaijani yağı, Chuvash ҫу (śu), Kazakh жау (jau), Kyrgyz жоо (joo), Tatar яу (yaw), Turkmen ýagy, Uyghur ياۋ (yaw), Uzbek yov and Yakut сыа кар (sıa kar).

Noun

یاغی • (yağı)

1. stranger, foreigner, alien
2. enemy, foe, unfriend

   Synonyms: دشمن (düşman), خصم (hasm, hasım)

Descendants

• Gagauz: yaa
• Turkish: yağı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yağı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5154
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yağı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1226

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkic, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yagï (“enemy”). Early attestations include The Alchemy of Happiness, from the early 1100s.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [jɑː.ˈɣiː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jɑː.ɣíː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jɑː.ɣíː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [jɑː.ɣíː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [jɔː.ɣí]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [jɒː.ɢíː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [jɔ.ʁí]

Readings
Classical reading?	yāğī
Dari reading?	yāğī
Iranian reading?	yâği
Tajik reading?	yoġi

Noun

یاغی • (yâği)

1. rebel, outlaw

   Synonyms: شورشی (šureši), متمرّد (motamarred)

2. (obsolete) enemy, foe

   Synonym: دشمن (došman)

   • 1310s, Rashīd al-Dīn, “History of the Nations of the Kings of China”, in جامع التواريخ [Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh]:

     در آن عهد، معهود چنان بوده که به وقت وصال یاغی بر کوه آتش افروختندی و دهل زدندی، و بدان سبب امرا واقف می‌گشتند و حاضر می‌شدند.

     dar ān ahd, ma'hud činān būda ki ba waqt-i wisāl-i yāğī bar kōh ātiš afrōxtandē u duhul zadandē, u bad-ān sabab umarā wāqif mē-gaštand u hāzir mē-šudand.

     In those days, the rule was that upon encountering the enemy, fires would be lit and drums beaten on top of the mountains, so that the generals would become aware thereby and make preparations.

Adjective

یاغی • (yâği)

1. rebellious

   Synonyms: سرکش (sarkeš), متمرّد (motamarred)

Ushojo

Etymology

From Pashto یاغی (yāğī).

Noun

یاغی (yāğī)

1. rebel, rebels, rebellious, disloyal