جیغه

• جغه (jağa), جیقه (jīqa), جقه

The origin is uncertain. Compare Sanskrit शिखा (śikhā).

جیغه • (jiğa)

1. an ornament or jewel worn in the turban
2. a crest with which a wrestler or champion is adorned

• → Armenian: ջղա (ǰġa), ճղա (čġa)
• → Azerbaijani: çığa
• → Georgian: ჯიღა (ǯiɣa)
  • → Armenian: ջիղա (ǰiġa) (Tbilisi)
• → Kazakh: жыға (jyğa)
• → Kyrgyz: жыга (jıga)
• → Ottoman Turkish: جغا (cığa)
  • Turkish: çığa, cığa
• → Salar: çağu
• → Turkmen: jyga
• → Uzbek: jigʻa

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “ճղայ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 722a
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çığa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 792a
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎ (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1029, pages 9–11
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “çığa”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 89a
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “جیغه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 382
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “جغه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 365