yiğit

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See also: Yiğit and yigit

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish یگیت (yigit), from Proto-Turkic *yegit, *yigit, likely equivalent to yeğ (preferable, better, best) + -it, perhaps an old plural suffix.

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yigit), Azerbaijani igid, Bashkir егет (yeget), Crimean Tatar yiğit, Gagauz yit, Karaim iğit, Karakalpak jigit, Kazakh жігіт (jıgıt), Kyrgyz жигит (jigit), Nogai йигит (yigit), Karachay-Balkar джигит (cigit), Southern Altai јиит (ǰiit) or јигит (ǰigit), Tatar егет (yeget), Uyghur يىگىت (yigit), Uzbek yigit, Shor чиңет etc.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /jiɣit/, [ji.it], [jiːt]

Adjective

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yiğit

  1. heroic

Noun

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yiğit (definite accusative yiğidi, plural yiğitler)

  1. wight, brave one

Declension

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Inflection
Nominative yiğit
Definite accusative yiğidi
Singular Plural
Nominative yiğit yiğitler
Definite accusative yiğidi yiğitleri
Dative yiğide yiğitlere
Locative yiğitte yiğitlerde
Ablative yiğitten yiğitlerden
Genitive yiğidin yiğitlerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular yiğidim yiğitlerim
2nd singular yiğidin yiğitlerin
3rd singular yiğidi yiğitleri
1st plural yiğidimiz yiğitlerimiz
2nd plural yiğidiniz yiğitleriniz
3rd plural yiğitleri yiğitleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular yiğidimi yiğitlerimi
2nd singular yiğidini yiğitlerini
3rd singular yiğidini yiğitlerini
1st plural yiğidimizi yiğitlerimizi
2nd plural yiğidinizi yiğitlerinizi
3rd plural yiğitlerini yiğitlerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular yiğidime yiğitlerime
2nd singular yiğidine yiğitlerine
3rd singular yiğidine yiğitlerine
1st plural yiğidimize yiğitlerimize
2nd plural yiğidinize yiğitlerinize
3rd plural yiğitlerine yiğitlerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular yiğidimde yiğitlerimde
2nd singular yiğidinde yiğitlerinde
3rd singular yiğidinde yiğitlerinde
1st plural yiğidimizde yiğitlerimizde
2nd plural yiğidinizde yiğitlerinizde
3rd plural yiğitlerinde yiğitlerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular yiğidimden yiğitlerimden
2nd singular yiğidinden yiğitlerinden
3rd singular yiğidinden yiğitlerinden
1st plural yiğidimizden yiğitlerimizden
2nd plural yiğidinizden yiğitlerinizden
3rd plural yiğitlerinden yiğitlerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular yiğidimin yiğitlerimin
2nd singular yiğidinin yiğitlerinin
3rd singular yiğidinin yiğitlerinin
1st plural yiğidimizin yiğitlerimizin
2nd plural yiğidinizin yiğitlerinizin
3rd plural yiğitlerinin yiğitlerinin
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