یاقین

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یقین (yakın)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yakïn (“near, proximate”); cognate with Azerbaijani yaxın, Bashkir яҡын (yaqın), Kazakh жақын (jaqyn), Kyrgyz жакын (jakın), Tatar якын (yakın), Turkmen ýakyn, Uyghur يېقىن (yëqin) and Uzbek yaqin.

Adjective

یاقین • (yakın)

1. near, nigh, close, proximate, at a little distance

   Synonyms: قریب (karib), نزدیك (nezdik)

Adverb

یاقین • (yakın)

1. closeby, nearby, next to, close to

Derived terms

• یاقین اقربا (yakın akraba, “next of kin”)
• یاقین كیتمك (yakın gitmek, “to approach, draw near”)
• یاقیندن (yakından, “closely”)
• یاقینده (yakında, “nearby, immediate”)
• یاقینلاشدرمق (yakınlaşdırmak, “to make or let approach”)
• یاقینلاشمق (yakınlaşmak, “to approach, draw near”)
• یاقینلرده (yakınlarda, “lately, recently”)
• یاقینلق (yakınlık, “nearness, proximity”)

 

Descendants

• Crimean Tatar: yaqın
• Gagauz: yakın
• Turkish: yakın

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “یاقین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 869
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yakın”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5165
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یاقین”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 502a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاقین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1342
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Propinquus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1384
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یاقین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5549
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yakın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاقین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2190