еңгә

Bashkir

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yeŋe (“elder brother's wife”).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (jengä, “older male relative's wife”)[1]; Kazakh жеңге (jeñge), Kyrgyz жеңе (jeŋe), Southern Altai јеҥе (ǰeŋe), Uyghur يەڭگە‎ (yengge), Khakas ниге (nige), Yakut саҥас (sañas, “older male relative's wife”), Turkish yenge (“aunt-in-law, one's brother's wife”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [jɪ̞ŋˈɡæ]
  • Hyphenation: ең‧гә

Noun

еңгә • (yeŋgä)

  1. the wife of one's elder brother, cousin or other male blood relative (who is older than the speaker but younger than the speaker's parents)

Declension

References

  1. Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969) Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 256
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