yığınak

Turkish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ottoman Turkish ییغناق (yığınak), an obsolete word revived during the language reform to replace the Arabic borrowings mecma and tecemmu. Equivalent to yığın +‎ -ak.

Noun

yığınak (definite accusative yığınağı, plural yığınaklar)

  1. (military) concentration
    • 2023 April 4, headline by Anadolu Agency]:
      ABD Pasifik’te yığınağa devam ediyor, Filipinlerde 4 yeni üsse ABD askeri konuşlanacak
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

See also

Further reading
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yığınak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییغناق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2223
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